It's a wrap!

Wednesday 26th October's progress:

The house is wrapped (& so are we!)
More bricks
Hot water pipes

Amazing to think we had a plain block of land only 5 weeks ago!

and here's some pictures:

Our wrapped house!

From the driveway

A closer look at the front - with some brickwork at the garage to be seen.

Knew he would have fun getting over the sand

Garage wall

Down the side of the garage wall with the meter box in place

Brickwork down the south side of the house

Inside our house!!   Looking from the kitchen ....all the way......through to the rumpus.

One of the articulation joints

Pipework for the HWS

Building inspector #1 inspecting the brickwork outside the laundry

Garage wall

25th October - has Christmas come 2 months early???

It does seem like Christmas has come early.....as we now have a Roof, Blue Paper, Bricks, Water & Gas!!

9.55am - 25th October 2011

9.55am - Looking down the driveway

12pm - Looking down the driveway with roofing taking place

On closer inspection - we notice the brickies are on site - & we have some blue paper in the distance!

Just after 5pm - most of the colorbond is on & the roofing guys were still on site!

6.15pm - looking good!

Making our way over the pile of sand that is in the middle of the driveway. How much fun would the boys have in that??

W wanted to know why there was a cement mixer on site! I was very excited to tell him that it was because we were getting bricks laid!

On our inspection inside we see the plumbing has been done.  This is the laundry

Pipes

Water pipes (the black ones) and the soil pipe/stack thingy (the white one)

Kitchen - plumbing

Water pipe for the fridge.  The yellow pipe above is the gas pipe heading over to the hot plates

Tap outside the laundry

Outside tap just outside the ensuite - with running water

Bricks!!!!!  (Selkirk Indigo in case you were wondering!)

From the south west corner looking back towards the garage and along the south wall. 

It looks like they are wrapping the house as they go.

A wrapped wall and a lovely looking brick wall.

Really pleased with the colour of the bricks - can't wait til the mortar has dried and the bricks have been cleaned to see the finished result.

Our jagged roofline

Blue paper along the garage

Colorbond Jigsaw pieces. I do feel sorry for our roofing guys - it's not the easiest of roofs!



Bed 4 - all wrapped and very much a 'room'! I had to use the flash as I was indoors!!!

W's room

J's room

More of the Colorbond Roof Jigsaw puzzle

Is it too early to want to sell?

We visited the block yesterday afternoon and came across an unexpected and completely unwelcome visitor:

It was huge!!!

Am now hoping that its demise will serve a warning to any of its friends who are thinking of taking up residence!! 


Meanwhile - we have decided to keep the awning window in the meals area as is...but we want to change the front door to how it should be on the plan.  The way it is now means you can see from the driveway thru the house, whereas if it is changed, you have to be on the front porch to be able to see through the side window. (if that makes sense!!)

While we were making this decision, someone else was having fun in the puddle in the garage:

We are now looking forward to what progress we see this week! :)

4 weeks in.....

So, here we are 4 weeks since there was the beginning of action on our block.......What has happened since the last update? 

Well, we have the roof trusses up:

More wood

Still more wood

The fascia and guttering up:

The view from the driveway

The guttering and fascia.  The colour is Merino  (Colourbond Paperbark)

The ensuite shower has been further prepared:

and today we found.......Windows - in place......and Bricks - delivered!!!

Windows in, roof safety/scaffold (?), bricks delivered

Bricks!  More things on the roof! (very technically, I know!)

looking towards the front door

A pile of bricks!

Building inspector #1 checking out the front door....and finding that it isn't quite correct.......

Living room window

Meals window......not sure this is correct - should be a sliding window, not an awning

Kitchen/servery window

From the Alfresco, looking toward the kitchen & meals area

The boys checking out the Lounge sliding door (doing that while they are allowed in this room!)

J's room

W's room - he was very excited!  Particularly seeing the bricks 'there are so many bricks as our house is sooooo big!!'

The toilet window

The bathroom window

Linen/Storage with soffits (if that's what they are called!)

Door out to the garage from the laundry/mud room

The safety bits and pieces

One study window and the ensuite window

Building inspector #2 checking out the bricks - Selkirk Indigo

Sliding door in the laundry

View from the driveway

piles and piles of bricks!