Week Twenty-two – the roof begins and kitchen selections are made

The week starts with a public holiday so no work on the Monday. Shame about the 7mm of rain on a roof that was half covered with tarps.

Details need to be given to the joiners to get the kitchen started. Long before we started to build, March 2016 in fact, we went cruising kitchen manufacturers. Smartstone was selected for the bench-tops with Astral being the colour. They will be 20mm thick for 17 and 40mm for 19. While current fashion can’t be ignored, the durability of engineered stone outweighs the cost savings of other alternatives.

The bench-top surface of choice

Likewise, shiny white 2 pack is all the rage and while it’s easy to repair damages, they will happen more often. We don’t have to have the same in both but given the longevity of our last kitchen, laminated MDF with ABS edging is the choice with a Laminex Polar White Silk Finish.

Given we need to select colours for the laundry bench, tiles also needed to be selected.

We liked the 300x200 Antique White textured tiles we had last time in 17 so we’ll go with these again. For the floors, the criteria is something that is easy to clean and doesn’t show marks so a 300x300 ceramic tile in Belga Grey is the choice. A good price from Beaumont’s helped as well.

To match this, the laundry benches will be in Laminex Terrasphere Natural Finish.

There are two different roof coverings, Colorbond Klip-lok on the new flat sections which can only be seen looking out of the first floor bedroom window, the original roof and extensions being replaced and upgraded with Heritage Corrugated Galv. With the aim of the house looking as original as possible, silver was the chosen colour. But what finish, silver/grey colorbond, plain Zincalume or galvanized steel?

The first two options will last longer but galv has a far more original look and most likely outlive either of us so shiny galv it is and it will fade pretty quickly to match the heritage of the house.

The only issue is the mixing of two metals with the Colorbond draining onto the Galv so some guttering modifications will be required.

So on Tuesday, the flat Klip-lok starts. By the end of the week 17 has a roof at the back and the curved sections are done on 19.

The carpenters did some finishing up making the framing for the attic ladders.

The glass in the first-floor toilet window has lost its frosting to give to desired “Loo with a view”. Given the location of the carport, unless you’re climbing a tree on Edward Street, privacy isn’t an issue.

With the expectation of little rain the following week, Sunday morning was spent emptying water from the cellar. What could possibly go wrong?