Week 12

The final internal timber lintel went in. Another beautiful piece of ironbark.

The posts to carry the t bar lintel above the bay door was installed. The t bar will be welded on top to carry the load of bricks above.

Brickies at work on the footings, not their best work mind you. This wall is technically called a "pig". Due to it's long length an error was made in the levels which meant the wall was going downhill. Luckily this wall will be hidden under the house as it is support for floor trusses, otherwise it would have meant pulling it down and starting again. No effect on structural integrity, just not pretty to look at.

The start of digging up the grass for our garden.

week 11

 We have a room, minus roof, of course.

 Opening between the 2 downstairs rooms. Huge piece of exposed ironbark will be placed next week. Going to take a few strong hands to lift it into place. Once its installed , the brickwork can then be finished off over the top.

Retaining wall is looking good. Will start to fill it with soil in 2-3 weeks. Then start the garden.

Week 10

Quiet week this week. James started bricking over one of the windows today which was great. I'm going to pick up the internal timber lintels on Monday so hopefully they will be installed then.

I went up today (Saturday) and continued with my retaining wall. It's starting to look pretty good. Not really looking forward to digging out all the grass. I think I'll continue on with the back wall and finish that before I carry on with the side wall.