Framing now completed, cladding phase underway. Barge boards and fascias the first to go up with external cladding and roofing to follow in the coming weeks. The form is quite apparent now :)

Plenty of activity at this time of the project with services ‘rough in’ underway. For this to occur all points for power, data, gas and lighting need to be resolved and finalised.

We have found that power and lighting layouts especially are one of those things that clients don’t fully grasp on a floor plan, and although best intentions are made by the architect to get things exactly right at time of contract signing this is not always possible.

Acknowledging this, we write into all our documentation that all power/ data and lighting layouts are to be approved by the architect prior to rough in commencing. This gives us the opportunity to physically walk through the home with the client and plan exact final locations of points, lights etc before the contractor commences. We find this is really when clients begin to think in great detail about how they use the home and to establish whether they have everything they need (audio is one of those things that tends to sneak in).

This process removes the need to visualise an outcome on a drawing by walking through room by room and even sometimes actually playing out how the room will be used so practical locations can be resolved for services with the client.

Image above of now completely framed home with main roof opening up to the street.