Gutter me up, Scotty!

The weather has been pretty shocking in Melbourne this week, so we weren't expecting much to be done onsite when we made our weekly pilgrimage to the site this weekend. Turns out though that the roofers have been very busy installing the fascia and guttering:

Pretty gables and a new verandah

Close up shot of fascias

Framing for the verandah is now done

Side shot of the kitchen gable

Back view

My first thought when seeing the fascia (which is Colorbond Surfmist) was that it looked a lot darker than I was expecting. Surfmist is the lightest colour in the Colorbond range, and I always thought it was quite a light white colour, whereas on the house it looks quite grey. However, upon closer examination of some of the offcuts laying around on the ground, I think it is primarily the shadow and contrast effect of the darker Woodland Grey gutters which is making the fascias look darker than expected. The contrast against the lighter weatherboards should help to lighten this up. I have seen this colour scheme on many finished houses, so I am confident that it will all look fine once the weatherboards and roof are up too.

In other news, PK had been in contact earlier in the week to say that the windows had been delivered on Monday as expected, but as two had arrived broken they needed to be sent back and new ones issued. That must have all been sorted out as there were great big piles of windows laying around the site. Those of you with good memories will recall that we have chosen aluminium awning windows in Surfmist - the colour seems to be right, so that's one more point to instil confidence in the final colour perception of the fascias....

Windows for the family room

En suite window and bathroom window

More windows

The Colorbond roofing sheets also appear to have been delivered and are ready to go (can't see the colour in this shot, but these are Woodland Grey):

Roofing sheets

At this rate, they should have the windows installed and the roof well underway by our next visit. We should be able to fit in a special mid-week visit this week as on Wednesday, Ben and I have the day off to go and see the electrician and the cabinet maker and start getting this side of things organised. It looks like the cabinet maker has already made a visit on site to start checking measurements. Now it is up to us to find some examples of what we want before Wednesday...

Markings for the en suite vanity - apparently the cabinet maker and I are thinking along
the same lines, which is a good start!