Week 16

Floor trusses went down this week and the chipboard flooring has begun. Concreters also came in this week and have put reinforcing in and boxed up ready for pour next Tuesday.

Concreters will pour for north garage, front verandah(above) and rear terrace. Chipboard flooring will also be completed including under floor insulation. Once all the chipboard floor has been laid we can measure up to get the frame and roof trusses made. They should be ready to be installed in a couple of weeks.

Starting to look like a room now. Just need to clean up a bit.

Week 15

Bay window frames have finally gone in for downstairs. They'll finish getting bricked up next week along with the lintel getting welded in place and then bricked over ready for floor trusses above.

Most of the downstairs brick work is now up to floor height. Still a bit to go until we are completely ready for our floor to go on.

Floor trusses have arrived and are going to start getting installed on Monday. Hopefully the bricking can stay ahead of them. Pressure is on the bricklayer as the concreter comes in Tuesday next week to begin work getting ready to pour our north garage, rear terrace, front veranda and anything else we can think of that needs concreting. With any luck the south garage will get done as well.

Week 14

Getting closer to floor height now for the whole house. Floor trusses have been ordered and are supposed to be on site Thursday next week.

There's still a bit of bricklaying to be done before we're ready for trusses. Here's hoping. Then the pressure will be on to get the garages built so the roof trusses can go on. The plan is to have a roof on and windows in by Christmas.

 We had some mechanical help today diverted to our garden bed and it did ,in less than an hour, what would have taken me weeks to do by hand.

I'm happy with the result. Now we can get the garden beds prepared for planting. The vege patch in the corner will have to wait as apparantly storm water piping needs to run underneath it.

Week 13

Some progress this week with a team of bricklayers coming in to help. They are coming back next week so here's hoping we'll be out of the ground and ready for frame. If the weather looks after us I think we'll get a LONG way next week.

Slab went down this week in the water tank area. Hopefully water tanks will go in next week and then all the walls can go up.

Planted our sad avocado tree today. It's been nagging me to get it in the ground so today was the day.  I hope it's happy there and gives us many years of fruit. More fruit trees to follow along that fence. Lemon, Lime to acompany the mandarin, fig and now avocado. They'll have to wait 'til next week.