It has been quiet on the house front
for the last couple of weeks. Money has more or less dried up, and
we are awaiting a home loan application approval before we can
recommence in earnest. The loan application is somewhere in the
innards of
Nedbank's Home Loan division. It seems they don't know
how to pigeon-hole the application as all the construction thus far
has been cash funded. The bank bureaucrats are not sure which box to
check: is it a Home Loan, a Building Loan, or Self-Build Loan? One
would think that having built the structure with cash would ease the
loan application process, but oh no, that would be too logical a
conclusion to draw when one is dealing with [b]or[w]ankers. They
don't seem to know what to do, endless to-ing and fro-ing. Hopefully
they will make their minds up soon. So much for
Nedbank's much
vaunted “Ask Once” advertising promise....
In the meantime we have been doing a
few small things ourselves. We have built a temporary staircase to
ease access to the first floor. We have also started to fix the
plywood sub-floor to the first floor joists. We are using 18mm pine
shutterply. As part of our noise mitigation attempts, we are
stapling strips of Airothene foam underlay to the tops of the joists,
and screw fixing the shutterply over these strips. The Airothene
should help to inhibit sound transmission through the timber
structure to the rooms below. In addition, we will be filling the
void above the ground floor ceiling with more acoustic insulation.
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| The temporary stairway to heaven |
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| The Master Suite in waiting |
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| 18mm shutterply on Airothene on EcoBeam |
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| Table Mountain from the first floor |
