Now that all of the travertine marble tiling has been completed in the bathrooms we can start to install the Dorf tap fittings and the Caroma toilet cisterns.
We have used the Dorf Orbit 5 shower system throughout Bimbadeen. We chose these as they provided both a fixed head and hand held shower […]

As I work in the electronics industry in my day job, yes that’s right this is only my night job, I have tried to include a lot of future proofing into Bimbadeen (our new name) This includes

Every room has access to a category 5 data network.
There is a pretty serious computer server cabinet in the […]

We have now fully installed the Altro Safety Flooring in all of the wet areas of the project. The Altro comes in 2 metre wide rolls and is cut and ultrasonic welded on site. The result is a tailor made “tub” that fits exactly area that is being covered. We used a number […]

The renderers have been in for a week now and have made some terrific progress. It looks like the job might finish sooner than the three weeks that they allowed. According to the other tradies on the site they are the cleanest renderers they have ever seen. Normally these are render splashes everywhere, but on […]

Over the last 2 weeks we have had a few ups and downs. As we are building in a rural location sometimes getting tradesmen can be tough. This was particularly so with getting renderers. It took us weeks to get a renderer lined up then on the day he was supposed to start he pulled […]

Week 36 of the build has seen the start of the preparation to lay the Altro Safety Flooring . You might remember reading a few weeks ago that Altro Safety Flooring became one of our partners to showcase their non slip vinyl flooring product in all of the wet areas. We are using a […]

When we were discussing what options we had for the top coat of paint internally we had, our friends at Dulux suggested that we consider using a product called Suede Effects. This is an easy to apply product that has the look of suede when the second coat is applied in a criss-cross fashion. […]

We have tried hard to make our project sympathetic to the environment. We have included a number of resource saving systems into our plans. These include photovoltaic solar panels from BP Solar for electricity production that we feed back into the grid, vacuum tube solar hot water from Apricus , on-site water storage and […]

Over the last few days the interior painting has progressed well. We have completely done the first coat using Dulux 1 Step Acrylic Sealer . This will ensure that we get consistent coverage with the top coats which will be Dulux Suede Effects for the walls and Dulux Ceiling White for the ceilings. […]

On the upper level of our project the compressed bamboo floor was laid directly over a plywood underlay. On the ground level the floor is a concrete slab so the construction technique is to lay battens onto the slab and then glue the compressed bamboo planks to the battens. The key to a sound flat […]