Bricking and plastering done

Very impressed with the progress this week. The bricks have all been laid and we are really happy with the progress.

First some brick pics for you....

The first bricks being laid.....so exciting! The pictures follow the progress of the bricks until they are done.

Nearly done.....

The finished product......

Some pictures of the plastering.

I also took some videos of the plastering as it is hard to get perspective from photos.

The first video is of the main bathroom and bedrooms, plus the lounge room that is off the patio.

This is the entrance way, formal lounge and dining, kitchen and sunroom.

This is our room, walk-in-robe and ensuite. Check our view! Jealous much?????

Not sure what is happening this week as our site supervisor was away on Friday when we usually get our update. Really pleased to see how quickly things are moving along :)

Patio problems

We have had a bit of trouble with our patio. Specifically, we have asked Coral the whole way through the process whether we would be able to attach 2 lights and a fan to our outdoor patio. The whole time they have assured us that it would be fine. Until now........

When we met the electrician on site he said that it would not be possible and we would have to have lights under the eaves and no fan. We were not happy with that so we contacted Coral who obtained a quote for the patio upgrade. The quote was just over $3500 and they wanted us to pay $2500. Not happy Jan!!!!

Anyhoo, I wrote an email to Coral saying (very diplomatically, of course) that this was not on and that we expected them to pay all costs as it was their mistake. J said that I must have lit a firecracker up someones butt (he's such a keeper!), because less than 48 hours later we had a call from Coral saying that they would bear all costs. Yay for us!!! A win for the little guys :)

Fascia, Guttering, Windows and Roof tiles

This week has been quite eventful. First the fascia and guttering went on. We chose monument colour to complement our roof tiles (barramundi).

This is a view from the back of the house looking up at the sunroom. You can see the roof tiles have been delivered in the foreground.

The front.

The windows were delivered (only one got broken) and the corner bath has been installed.

The roof tiles went on but they still need to be bondcreted. The weather is a bit dicey up here so that is probably why that hasn't happened yet.

A view from the front. You can see the gables on the front and sides of the house.

Front door.

Back near the sunroom.

Next the windows started to go in. For some reason I found this to be the most exciting bit yet. I kept walking from room to room saying 'I LOVE IT!!!'. I love our windows because most of them start from the floor and are quite big. I wasn't took keen on the white frames at first but now I am convinced it will work really well with the rest of our colour scheme (fingers crossed).

Here is a view from just inside the front door. Your are looking over the dwarf wall and straight out the back sunroom. What a view!!!

Another pic looking out of the sunroom.

A couple of pics of the back of the house. It's almost all glass. YAY!!

A view from the front of the house. More glass. YIPEE!!!

The bricks have now been delivered and they start those on Monday (2nd Nov). The gyprock is starting on Wednesday. We will be at lock up stage in no time!

Roof trusses and front door

Here are some pics of our finished roof trusses. You can see where the gable is going to be above the front door. I love our front door, it is going to be stained a Jarrah colour and the glass is mottled cathedral glass.

Sorry people

Sorry everyone we are a bit behind in our blog. Had some suprise arrivals last weekend which have taken over our lives for the last week. I can't resist putting some non-house pics in for your enjoyment.....

Hope you have forgiven us for the delay between postings :)

We had 2 black and white females, 1 black, brown and white tricolour female, 1 blue and white male and 1 blue, tan and white male. Does anyone want to buy a border collie?!

Framing stage

The frame of the house started going up last Wednesday (14th October). It isn't a prefab frame so it is taking quite a long time to do as they are cutting and assembling all of the wood on site. Prefab frames seem to go up in a couple of days whereas doing it from scratch can take a couple of weeks. It seems as though the carpenters are running a bit behind as they are working on a couple of jobs at the moment so we may experience some delays from that as well.

The first day they started putting up the frame for our bedroom and the front rooms.

After a couple of days they seemed to have the rest of the rooms done.

Then they put some ply-board thingys in strategic locations, and today they started the roof.

It has been so much fun walking around the rooms. Scarily, there have been a couple of things that I didn't notice on the paper plans. Like the main bathroom shower is tiled on three sides when I thought it was only two. Some of the rooms feel really small, whereas others feel really big. There are huge spaces where the windows are going to go and it is hard (but exciting) to imagine what it is going to look like when it is all finished.

They haven't put the frame up for the kitchen yet, that should happen later this week. But they are focussing on finishing the roof and verandah because the gutters and fascia are booked to be installed on Monday next week. All in all, going along slowly but smoothly.

Slabby days :)

Well, this was the day that we had been waiting for...... Our slab was poured and I was very impressed to see how quickly it was done. They were finishing up around 1230pm having started about 6am. I took the doggies up in the morning to see it, and I had to try very hard to restrain them from putting puppy prints all over the pretty new concrete. I am sure the concreters would have been very unimpressed!

When I went back again in the afternoon they were polishing up the concrete to make it pretty and flat.

I couldn't resist carving our initials in the slab :)

Having a slab makes building very real now. Had to take some of our besties up to the land on Saturday to celebrate! The next step is to put up the frame, which should take about a week. The following week the roof should go on (weather permitting, of course - we have some storms forecast for the next week). Fingers crossed .....