More Bricks and No Scaffolding

The scaffolding has been removed. The house looks heaps better without it. The brickies have reached just past the laundry door. I guess this week we will be going round and round. There has also been another 10 packets of bricks delivered.



We went to the home show on the weekend courtesy of the home forum. I picked up a pioneer brochure as you can see below in the rumpus. This is the same size as a 50" Plasma TV. Marita thinks this is too small. Oh well I guess that we will have to go for a projector and screen!!!

More Bricks

Day 44 - More bricks were laid today. As you can see the garage is 5 rows higher and the bricks extend right around to the alfresco. We also have had the lintels delivered.

I have counted up the bricks. Each packet has 480 bricks. So far we have had 10 packets delivered. I wonder how many we will need.

Roof, Gas, Water and Bricks - MUD

Well today there has been lots of activity even with all the rain. We arranged to meet our site supervisor today on site. We went through a number of things we wanted to talk about and we are happy with our S/S.

When we arrived, we even saw some of the tradies busy working.

To our surprise the roof has been finished, the water and gas pipes have been done. Also the brickies have started. Oh and the mud is right through the house now.

The rest of the roof over the rumpus will be done at a later date when the scaffolding comes down.
Nice roof!
We also have a spinny thingy on the roof. As far as I know this will be soon blocked out by the evaporative cooler.
This picture is to show that we have put in an extra window in the master room which looks out over the garage.

Bricks and Colorbond

Day 42 Bricks Delivered. This brick is the Boral - Jarah style. It has been raining heaps today as you can see from the puddles.
Great View of the Deep Ocean Blue colorbond roof.

It is very wet inside the house tonight. There is also some sisalation around the house.

Trees and Guttering

On the Easter Weekend we planted some trees to keep the council happy. Due to the removal of an existing tree, we were required to replace it with 2 canopy trees. These are Lemon Scented Gums. This should help block out the nursing home behind us.
Tuesday the boys have almost finished the guttering and started preparing for the colorbond roof.

The site has been cleaned up too probably because the bricks are due to be delivered.

Trusses, Windows

Well, I'm having problem with the pictures linking so I will post a couple tonight to catch up. Quite a lot has happened over the past week. With a few thing happening each day it all adds up.
On Thursday all the trusses were up and some of the windows were put in. This includes the Front, Laundry and Garage doors. The rest of the windows have scaffolding in the way.

This is the upstairs toilet. Can anyone tell me what is different about ours?????
Shower niches in the master bedroom.

Roof Trusses Up

The top roof trusses were completed yesterday. Alfresco & Rumpus still to go.
From across the road
Back
Games Room

Scaffolding

The scaffolding has been put up today. Here are the front and back shots.

More Frame and Trusses

Most of the frame has been completed upstairs now and the roof trusses have been delivered.
This will be Teagan's Room. You can see the temporary ladder.
This will be the master room. The extention to the WIR was a good idea. We have added doors to the WIR and Ensuite. These door will all line up with each other.

Second Floor

Day 30 – Second Floor
The outside walls on the second floor have been completed today. Considering that it was 39 degrees today I expect that the chippies went to the pub early.

Floor

The floor beams have been put in place. The rumpus and part of the dining need to be completed.

The steel beams have been put in place. They are very heavy. I don't know how they got them up there.
Alfresco post and beams completed.

First Floor

Friday the first floor was completed. Here is the Rumpus room which is going to be the theatre room. The back of the house has been extended by half a metre which will give us more alfresco and theatre room.
Photo from the front
This is the theatre room entrance, which will have two solid doors. Originally the promotion was to have high doors to the master room. We were told after that we could not do this on this house so we asked for them to be on the theatre room. Down the track we were once again told that there is plumbing in the area above the doors so we ended up having them on the study instead.
This is the living room windows