Doors, Windows, Bricks PICS

Dining Room Sliding Door

Rear View

Second Floor

Bricking

Windows, Doors and Bricks

On Thursday we arrived at our house to find the windows and glass sliding doors had been installed. It gives the house such a different feel about it. Brother D just had to do his customary blowfish on one of the doors to christen the place. The house is nowhere near completion and he has already created my first cleaning job! We were lucky that day, because the contractors left the ladder open and unlocked, so we were able to go to the second floor and have a sticky beak (and take lots of photos). D and friend R pretended to play pool in what we will be our games room.

On Friday, we arrived for our (what is now a 3 week tradition) end of week drink to find the bricking had started and on one side wall was almost to the second floor.

What an exciting couple of days. I will post pics as soon as I'm able.

Not sure what this coming week will bring given the weather is forecast between 36 and 38 degrees everyday. Hopefully they will work at least until lunch time so we can see some progress.

Moving on Up!

Now it really looks like we are building a mansion!

Front right hand side

Left Front Side (showing entry)

Back View

They should finish all the carpentry work early next week :-)

We already have bricks delivered too!

DownTime

No work has happened on site for the past two days as the carpenters have been working on a site down south. At least someone else will be happy with the progress they are seeing. On a positive note, I met a neighbour who is building diagonally across the road - Sue. She seems really nice, which is a good thing as she will be a neighbour for many years to come. We have now met - Sue (who has a husband and a 20 month old child), Betty and Peter (an older couple), Raelene and Don (an older couple), and a name yet to be known neighbour, who D scared off with his 'toilet' antics.

The Second Story is on its way!

YAY! YAY! YAY!

Framework Begun

What a busy week it has been since the slab was laid. I'll try to be as brief as possible, but cover the main points.

• The day after the slab was laid, I noticed Max and Molly's paw prints had been swiped over. Disappointment Plus. We now need to think of a new place to imprint.
• The timber for the framework was delivered on the 16th of Oct.
• On the 17th, we put down a deposit for our carpet and floorboards at Carpet Choice. What a great deal we got too.

This style

In this colour
• On the 18th, we had a slab party.

• D. met our back neighbour when going for a toilet stop in the back corner of our block. A friend (W.) decided to kick a footy at D. as a joke and the footy went over the fence. Friendly neighbour went to give it to D. but D. had to explain his predicament of his 'hands being full'. We never found out anything more about this neighbour as I think both parties walked away a little embarrassed, but with grins on their faces.
• The slab party began at 1pm and finished at 7:30pm after a couple slabs (of beer) were polished off and a couple people a little under the weather. By gee what beautiful weather we had for it though.
• On Monday 19th of Oct the framework began. How quickly things seem to moving now. Yay for all this nice weather  !!!!

Front view

Back view

The guy in the picture was cementing where the setdown from the kitchen to the garage was too short and where the framework needed to be placed.

• On the 20th, we received our 1st invoice for the base stage completion. It's the most exciting bill we have ever received.
• As of today,

Magpies keeping a check on things

Floor of second storey

Side view looking towards entry

HAPPY SLAB DAY

After massive downpours of rain overnight, the last thing I was expecting to see today was the concrete mixer blocking our road and concrete going into the trenches. But that is exactly what I saw!

7am

I spoke to the contractors, querying the weather, asking if they will stop during the day given the forecasted showers and thunder, but no, they will just add accelerator to the mix. They said to go back about midday for the printing of the paw prints in the garage.

I'm that excited I'm sure I'll be back for more pics before that and then again later in the day.

I was lucky to have pre-warned work that I may be off today and thank their understanding of the importance of this day to me - given it is not officially a sick day.

Will update with more pics later. YAY! YAY! YAY!

1O:45am

We thought blocking the street to all traffic was pretty cool too!

12:45pm Preparing to Paw-Print

1:15pm Paw Prints

(Not quite as good as planned, due to: M and M squirming, flapping plastic that kept going over the slab, and being on my own, but we happy with it just the same. D thinks blobs makes it even cuter anyhow)

1:15pm Slab Progress from back view

(Paw prints on garage slab on right hand side of this picture, near orange plastic)

1:15pm Slab Progress from front view

Post paw-print paw clean

Will go back to block at 5:30 this evening to see it completed.

What a great day!!!!

5:45 All done and dusted (so to speak)

Steelwork

A lot of steel was used for our footings. We now understand why the contractors weren't looking forward to the job. We noticed an inspection has taken place and there is a note on one of the pegs of things to fix up. We had a pre-slab drink too while we had a look around.

The concrete has been scheduled to be poured on Tuesday, but given the forecast rain until at least Wednesday, we won't be getting our hopes up. At least it saves the predicament of having the first day off of school for paw printing. I can organise that for later in the week. Will probably have to get the contractors to call as soon as they decide they are going ahead with the job so I can organise a reliever. Maybe next weekend for the slab party? We'll wait and see.