The Progress of the Renovations at the Humpty Doo Property

The following pictures will give you an idea of what is happening at my home in Humpty Doo. I am in the process of adding a laundry/workshop downstairs and a verandah upstairs.

Below you can see four different views of the house, in its various stages of construction. To see some larger images of each column of photos, click on the txt at the top of the respective column. BEWARE: the sets of larger photos are approximately 500kb in size.

The laundry is finished and work on the French Doors onto the verandah is in progress!

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And here are some close up shots of some of the areas. Click on the photo to see a larger image.

	The laundry part of the laundry/workshop downstairs.
	The new verandah deck - 14m long and 4.5m wide!
	And the new terracotta coloured stairs leading up to the verandah.
	Peter, my builder, busy with his liquid breakfast :-)
	Tarpaulins covering the holes in the wall where the French Doors are going.

Some of the work that has been done so far:

• Replace rotten timber beam with a new steel one
• Prepare foundations for veranda posts and laundry slab
• Remove stairs to kitchen
• Pour concrete foundations and slab
• Remove steel beams from top of roof
• Erect columns, beams and purlins of verandah floor
• Erect columns, rafters and purlins of verandah roof
• Place the verandah roof sheeting
• Oil the verandah decking timbers
• Screw down the verandah decking timbers
• Relocate the stairs onto the front and rear verandah
• Erect steel wall frames in laundry/workshop
• Prepare plumbing in laundry
• Clad the inside walls of the laundry
• Clad the outside of the laundry/workshop

The laundry/workshop and veranda are stage 1 of the renovations.

In stage 2, steel reinforcing will be included in the roof and the walls to get the house to comply with the cyclonic building code. The old external wall sheeting will also be replaced with steel.

And in stage 3, the kitchen, bathroom and internal walls will be replaced and fixed respectively.

This page was last modified: 12/06/01