Bricking continues- Electrical rough-in done

Had another visit to the house today. The brickies were again hard at work. It looks like they are doing a very neat job so I am quite impresses. The bricking on the ground floor should be complete on tuesday, when they are due to deliver the scaffolding to continue the bricking on the first floor.

The electrical rough in has also been completed and the heating unit has been installed. Once the bricking is finished I expect they will put in the wall insulation and the plastering should be soon after.

Timber Bi-folds are in

Bricking has started

Went for a site meeting today, and the bricking has started. Met the
Site Supervisor and the brickies, who appear to be doing a good job.
Fingers crossed it keeps going that way. The bricks are Boral 'Brown
Terrain' with an off white mortar. We were a bit nervous about the
bricks we had chosen, as we struggled to find any bricks that we liked
from the Boral range (we were only able to select from the Boral) but
I am pretty happy with how they look. Rach is coming to inspect them
tomorrow so I hope she agrees!

I also measured some of the rooms to ensure that they are the same
size as the plans- we have picked out a great value home theatre suite
which will be perfect for our theatre room. I was a bit concerned it
was not going to fit, but we can now breathe a sigh of relief.

As I was leaving the 'heating guys' arrived and started to rough in
the heating ducts.
Our long suffering neighbours had their PCI (practical completion
inspection) today, so all things being well they will be able to move
in within a fortnight or so. We willl be going back on site tomorrow
and then going out to dinner with our 'future' neighbours so that will
be a good head start.

I had the first conversation today with our site supervisor. We arranged a site meeting and walk through for Friday morning. I have been having sleepless nights about the positioning of a tap on the outside of the house. The site supervisor agreed to move it to our prefered position (to the side of the house where we plan to have a rain water tank) so that is a load off my mind.
The brickies should be starting tomorrow, so hopefully there will be some progress by the time I get there on Friday.

Roof is on!

It's amazing at just how quickly this house is going up, so impressed with it all so far. J is being extra safe by organising to have an independent inspection pre-plaster. The roof tiles are now on and we are happy with the colour. They have attached the green insulation wrap, as you will notice in the pictures and we are ready for the brickwork to start, hopefully next week. It has been quite a wet week so there may be some hold-ups if the rain hits again.

Frame complete- Bricks and Tiles delivered to site

Just four weeks after the slab was poured, the frame (including roof trusses) is now complete. They have also 'roughed-in' all the plumbing and fixed the gutters and fascia. They have also delivered our bricks (Boral Brown Terrain) and roof tiles (gunmetal).
 
I expect that over the next week the roof tiles should go on, and hopefully they start bricking up the walls. It is starting to look like a house now, and was very exciting to drive into the estate to find two more house frames had popped up. Things are happening so fast, just hope we don't have too many major setbacks.

Roof trusses going on

The frame is complete (excluding the garage which will be done later), and roof trusses are now going on. The roof tiles should be laid next week, then they will start the bricking. Hopefully the weather will be kind and not hold us up too much. We were able to walk through our house (frame) on the weekend, and even got to check out the view from upstairs!
 
 

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