It's another storey

The second storey was going up during the week. The builders were onsite working hard to get the it done.
This picture from the front of the house also shows some of the trusses also being sized up.

By the weekend the second storey was mostly completed and the trusses were up.

The main roof trusses are all up. Some of the other smaller roofs on the ground floor and the garage need their trusses to be put up.

Also the beams for the verandah have been put up with some basic support to hold the beams up. There is also a lot of scrap timber around as a result of the frames and trusses being built onsite.

I shimmied up through the stairwell (no stairs yet) to get a look at the second storey. So here's a picture of the second storey. Angela wasn't too happy that I did it, thinking I might fall.

This is from the front - the master bedroom - looking down the corridor to the back of the house. On the left you can see the hole where the stairs will be and I climbed up through.

Joist travelling beautifully

The joists were delivered on Wednesday and when we visited on Sunday they were all up including the board forming the floor of the second storey.





The builders are really able to get these things up quickly.












The steel support beams have also been put up. This is from the front of the house. As the second storey is set back from the ground floor these beams will have to hold up the second storey and the main roof.















Another picture showing the interplay of the beams and the joists.













The south west corner of the house showing how it's coming along.



The kids like looking around now that it's starting to look like what they define as a house.

Dem Bones Dem Bones

The ground floor framing is nearly complete. We can now walk around and explain to the kids which room is which. The top picture is of the back corner of the house. The alfresco area will fill in the corner.



The second photo is of the back of the house. There will be a sliding glass door out to the alfresco and a picture window in the kitchen area. Its a bit hard to see the picture window.


You can get an idea of the articulation we had to put into the side facing the street so we could pass the estate guidelines. This was one of the reasons we couldn't go to a volume builder.

This is from inside the house looking out the back. The picture window is clearly visible.




Patrick is busy checking out the kitchen as usual. Nope - no luck, no food there yet. The opening on the left is for the walk in pantry.



Looking down through the front door. The garage is on the left and the multipurpose room on the right. The multipurpose room will become the kids playroom/rumpus room.



Some timber remaining to finish off the ground floor is left on site.


Here's another picture from inside showing the lounge area. Two big windows in this room should make it a nice and light area.


Things are progressing well and the frame looks quite well constructed. I can't see any obvious problems to my untrained eye.

This week will probably see the ground floor finished and perhaps a start on the upper floor.

Freeze Frame

After a break of a week from building due to having no power on the site. We had to get a meter installed in the meter box before we could get some power. Funny how electricity companies won't give you power unless they know how much you're using :-)

On Sunday, when we visited, I noticed that we had a meter installed. I was going to provide a picture of a new NMI showing 00000 but it would only be of interest to those in the energy industry.

Now on Tuesday we have the frame going up. The top picture is from the side of the house.

This is a picture of the front of the house. In the foreground you can see we now also have a tree planted on the front.
Don't know who planted it - council or estate developer.

We should get access over the weekend to provide some close up shots of rooms.