Bricks, electrical, plumbing and MUD

Bricks are on site and what mess we have in our front yard. Wettest August since 1992 and it's a quagmire. I'm feeling sorry for the brickies already. The electrical is finished, although we need one small amendment made in the home theatre. Plumbing is done and looking good. The roof tilers finished last week but have not taken down the safety railing yet. All looking good and winter can't go on much longer.

Roof tiles and mud

We had our tiles delivered Monday and they started putting up the tiles today. Looks like the truck delivering them had a time of it, at least my un-compacted trench is slightly more compacted now. The tiles look a lot lighter than I thought they would, maybe just the angle of the light and time day (late).

Frames and Gutters

One month after the timber was delivered for the frames we have a finished house frame complete with guttering. Starting to get exited now, being able to walk through a actual building instead of a paper design is amazing.

A SLAB walked into a bar.......

WOOT Woooooottt!!

We have a slab, the lads did a great job. Noisy as hell but worked from 6.30am to 7.45pm. From now on it's just sit back and pay the builder, and doing the odd checking as well. Had the first meeting with the SS on Tuesday to review the slab and all is good. The bottom shot shows the outdoor area, it looks small in this photo but it's a good size

Mesh, Mud and Rain

A day after they finished the trenching they started getting the plumbing and mesh all sorted. It appears that my worries with the concrete left by the demo team amounted to nothing and all is looking good. All I need now is for it to stop raining for a few days for the form work to be completed and the slab will be poured. It's amazing how small the house looks when it's at this stage, thank god we had a display home to walk through

Trenches and soil

It's been an interesting week, I've gone from being in control to being out of control and then back in control all with in a few days of each other. However finally we have our trenches finished ready for the plumbing install and then concreting. The demolition company that I used did a shonk job, they failed to remove a sizable piece of concrete approx 400mm below the top surface. Fingers crossed it will be OK as only the kitchen sink drain sits right on top of this area, if it needs to be removed it will cost me $$ and the builder time which we both can't afford. Other than that the job of soil removal and trenching has gone quite well, once the contractors made contact with each other it all went smoothly. Now I just have to pray that it does not rain to heavily this week prior to the concrete pore.

On winters door step

Hey all, well things are happening. Last week we had our sign erected which in turn angered the rain gods as it did not stop all weekend. As an apeasment a dunny was placed on the block which appered to please the rain gods and the rain stopped. Unfortunatly the block was too sodden to walk on let alone drive on so the site prep was delayed by three days. But today we have a level block and by tomorrows end we should have a block ready for footing excavation works. Photo's of said works are few and far between as it's too dark or too wet to capture. There should a clear spot on the weekend to photograph the site works.