The roof, The roof, The roof is on..... Yep, its on!

Yep, our roof tiles are on! Twas a slow start to the week, nothing happening, then come Thursday, we had the eves being put in, which made us think that would be all we would be getting this week. Then this morning, we had a very nice surprise in the morning when Nat drove past and saw pallets of roof tiles and roofers on the roof! This afternoon saw our home with a roof full of tiles and only one row of capping left to do! Top effort! I'll be finding out on monday what Beechwood have planned for our house next week!

Put a Fascia (and Gutter) to the name

Apologies for the delay in information in the last week. I have found myself in a new job more than an hour away from the build so I'm now unable to get day to day updates! Bummer I know, But here is the low-down on the happenings in the last week.

From my last post they have (almost) completed the bricking. I say almost as they actually ran out of bricks and are awaiting a shipment of one more pallet to finish the pillars in the garage. Aside from that it's all bricked up. The fascias and gutters were delivered and put on late last week and we have been told that the bricking will be completed at the begining of next week and that the tiles will be delivered and started next week also!

Hoping that this means that we're still on track for the end of November. Fingers crossed!

Would you like bricks with that?

BOOM! 1 day after the framing was complete we had bricks delivered and started. These photos are of 2 days work from our awesome "son of superman" brick layers! One half of the house is bricked up to the windows and the other side is up to the flashing. With another 2 days of solid bricklaying, we could potentially see 60% - 70% of our house bricked. Bring on more solid walls!

Up up and away!

Well, isn't it just about time that our frames went up! From my count (and memory) I believe that is almost 3 weeks of waiting for these frames to create the very structure that will be our home. We had 3 false starts, 1 two weeks ago, 1 last week and 1 that was meant to be yesterday, but no, the carpenter got held up at another job, AGAIN! Finally though, we had 5 guys on our block first thing to whip up the frames, and whip up they did!

The house went from a slab with bundles of prebuilt frames to a shell of a house in about 9 hours. Halfway through that, I had rocked up to check it all out and ran into the supervisor whom is still confident in us receiving a christmas present from beechwood and that the bricking SHOULD begin at some stage next week! I will continue to have my fingers crossed there. Supervisor reckons that the framing should be finished saturday (if the guys work the saturday) if not monday so should have some finished product photos up then.

In a great frame of mind

We have had our frames delivered to the block which was very exciting to see. Unfortunately they seem to also deliver rain with that, which is never good news when building. Not only are we already waiting for the chippies to finish previous projects, but now the rain has delayed them in finishing those projects which will now put us even further behind! With almost hitting the halfway point of the contract, things are not stacking up will for us. HOWEVER, like the title of this post suggests, we are in a great frame of mind in that given it is a small house, it should not take too long to whip up some frames, lay some roof tiles and brick the place up!

The waiting game

Well, we've now been told that the frames will be delivered next week, however the chippies won't be able to start until the week after due to a backlog of work.... this will at least allow the slab to cure for a good 3 weeks before heavy activity hits it. Got to find a positive somewhere ;).

On a lighter note, as you guys can probably notice, I'm starting to make some changed to the blog when I get the chance. I feel bad since I am a web developer and the blog is just a stock standard template. Hard to get motivated to do something I do 10 hours a day already. Anyway, I've whipped up a quick little script at the top of the page basically giving a snapshot of the progress so far. Hovering over it will give you the date and description of the photo and clicking them will enlarge the photo and give you the ability to scroll along, giving an almost flipboard effect. A bit of fun and something different. More functionality to come, and Nats bugging me for a personal look. Thats my next job!

Back soon!

Maze of Pipes

Been quiet for a bit... This is due to a delay in the external plumbing on our block. Was initially booked in for last Friday, then got told that the plumber has been held up on another job that took longer than expected. Emailed beechwood last night to find out when it would be getting done and I get an email at 5:30pm this afternoon saying that all she knew was that it was going to be sometime this week and that she would check with the superviser about its progress.

Luckily Nat had driven past this morning on the way to work to see that the plumber was infact on our block this morning and I went over this afternoon (before I got the email from beechwood) and took some shots and to check out the layout of the pipes.

All in all i'm quite happy with the positions of the downpipes around the house with all but 1 being down both sides of the house, one is on the back wall. I have seen some shockers around where a downpipe is on a front piler infront of the door. I don't know if there is a reason behind that, but I don't see any, which makes me think someone stuffed up there because its not the best of looks.

The nice plumber even smoothed some of out dirt out at the back, which I was wanting to do anyway, so that saved us a few dollars. Still have a fair amount to remove though.