More bricks in the wall

The bricks have been laid at a rapid rate. Most of the walls have been done up to the height where there hasn't been a requirement to use scaffolding. The bricks should be completed this week if the weather holds up. A bit of quandary, the fine weather means our house gets completed quicker but then also we need the rain.

Here is a closeup of the feature in the bricks that's on the front. This feature also continues to about halfway down the street side as well. The baths and shower bases have been installed upstairs in the ensuite and main bathroom. It seems that they have more than one type of contractor on site at any one time. This is good for us getting the house completed on time.

Chicken cross road

Men lay bricks

We have a start on bricking up the walls. One side of the house has almost been bricked up. The picture is of the garage.

We also have a laundry door. The bricks look at bit dirty from the mortar and will show their true colours once they have been cleaned off.

And we have a front door. The green is not the actual colour and it will be painted Jaspar later. The front has been bricked up to 900mm and then a row of bricks will be placed end out. There should be a sill created then the bricks will go up to the first storey. I'm not sure if the brick piers for the verandah will be done at this time or later.

Roughing it

The bricklayer has been delayed on another job so we haven't managed to get any of the outside walls done. However the electrician has come in and roughed the ground floor. Roughing is laying cables and marking out where switches and lights are to go. The plumbing has also been roughed in.

We also have a side fence. Also the brickie has come and put out the bricks in readiness for the walls.
I've added some views from the second storey. This is from the back of the house. As you can see the houses behind us are lower down as the ground falls away just at our back fence.
This is from out of the window in the media/study room. So far nothing has managed to block our view. The kids are already starting to enjoy playing on the block even if we don't have any grass.

More roof tiling

The ground floor roof tiles have been placed except for two small sections. The arch over the entrance way hasn't been done and a small section of the alfresco.


We get a look at how the tiles appear in sunlight. So now we have seen them in the dull light and bright sunlight. We are happy with how they look. We should see some bricks being layed this week.

It's a cover up

The roof is going on. There hasn't been a delay at all. A relatively fine week of weather and the tiler was ready to go.

These pictures are from Wednesday. The roof tiling was to be finished on Thursday and the brickie to start on Friday. These guys are machines - working so quickly. So far it looks like an excellent job.
I talked to the Site Supervisor about spare bricks and tiles and he said that if we wanted to keep the left overs, to stack them at the rear of the property and we can keep any left overs. More pictures to come soon with the bricks to the ground storey being layed.

Bricks, Tiles and green walls

It has been a busy week for the builders. The structure is complete and we have green wall foil around the ground floor. Also pallets of bricks and tiles have been delivered in preparation for bricking and tiling.

The scaffolding has been put up so the tilers can begin work. The roof tile is called Caulfield. The bricks are H-H-Hawthorn.

Sorry having a few problems with that word after the AFL Grand Final.

The gutters and fascias have also been erected. They are Colourbond and the colour is Jaspar.

Its exciting to walk through the house and look at everything coming together.

We was framed

The frame is now complete. Apparently the plumber has started, he called up and asked us if there was anything else that we wanted to do, changes at the last minute such as putting a gas line out to the alfresco to connect to the BBQ. We don't actually know exactly where we are putting the BBQ yet so we had to turn the offer down. Still it was nice to be asked.

So here's an updated side shot with the windows now installed.

The ground floor trusses have been completed. The window frames are jaspar.

The front with the verandah trusses in and the windows installed. The small portal (round) window is to the ensuite.

We had to change the electrical plan due to the changed location of the meter box and move an external light and modify the living/dining room TV and power points as we didn't realise how big the windows were. A chat and a fax to our CSR and it was all sorted. Not a problem at all. It's great to have an easy to deal with CSR.