Tathra Paddington

Week 14

Steel to kitchen floor – concrete pour next week

Week 11 – Scaffolding and back wall gone…

 Scaffolding and back wall gone, internal stairs all gone. Garage walls up and forming up for ground floor slab.

Week 9 – Rear wall removed and Garage walls start

The rear wall of the main building is starting to be removed, making way for a large steel beam. The Level One floor is down ready for the Bedroom and bathroom. The walls to the garage have started, making way for the formwork for the next slab to start.

Week 8 – Garage Slab poured!

Internal floors to the main house continued and formwork was prepared to get the ground ready for the concrete pour for the garage slab this morning. The concretors have started polishing the slab, ready for a raw honed finish.

Week 7 – Preparing for Garage Slab and New Bedroom Floor

Week 6 – Footings, underpinning and new floors

Excavation has continued with piers and footings for the slabs being formed and underpinning of the adjacent terrace – not very exciting visually, but needs to be done! The steel beam to the new first floor framing is installed and the existing flooring removed, giving a great mezzanine space for a week or two. Concrete […]

Week 4 – Excavation starts

The underpinning, pier digging and excavation for the garage slab has started, not as dramatic as demolition, but progress!

Week 3 – Demolition continues

Not much of the old house left! The rain didn’t slow anything down luckily, the demolished concrete was taken away and inside the fireplaces, chimneys and a few internal walls were taken down. The site should be clear next week to start forming up the new concrete slabs.  

Week 2 – Demolition continues

Almost all of the rear section has been demolished – clearing away the rubble takes longer than the demolition!!

Week 1 – Work begins…

Work started last week on my terrace house for what will be a 10-11 month building program. The house was substantially renovated in the early 1970’s, removing all but a few original features of the house. The house has only 2 Bedrooms, outdated kitchen and bathrooms, leaking floors, walls and bad indoor/outdoor flow – it […]