Bricks Delivered on Day 58 of the Build

Catch Up Post #5 - 
Day 58 (Sat 26th June)
saw the BRICKS delivered to site!

The construction progress has the blue lines of the roof battons all over the roof, added to the green lines of the wall frames... the house is looking very colourful and stripey :)

The kids have lots of fun scootering on the street... Its such a nice break from the confined space of the rental unit - bringing much hope / longing for when we finally move into the new place... 

 

 Otherwise if there are no workmen in the house, the kids like scootering (or rip-sticking) through the house.  I've told them to get 'it all out of their system - coz there won't be any such scootering inside the house soon enough' :)

It's nice to see the kids getting more and more excited about the new house with us... They absolutely can't wait to finally be living our new life in OUR place either :)

Construction of the Roof

Catch Up Post #2 - 

Day 47 (Tues 15th June) we saw delivery of Roof Trusses...

Day 48 we saw the roof take shape...

 

In the past week we had a slab, wall frames and now a roof was happening!!!! 

Never in all our waiting and waiting and waiting have we seen so much action... Yay!!!!!!

The carpenter / tradesman who worked on the frame also constructed the roof trusses. He has proved to be a great bloke who was willing to explain to us what was what and always had a wave and smile when we constantly stopped by... He even offered me a cuppa from his thermos one day when I was just sitting out front watching the work!!! We are keeping his name on file for sure (see links/referrals page).

You never know when you might need a good quality tradesman - and we believe in word of mouth referrals... 

Day 50 saw more roof work...

Wonderful to see the line of the roof take shape, bit by bit.

Day 50 also saw the windows / sliding doors delivered. 

And the guttering :)))

I am very relieved that the I still like the colours we picked (the choice had been so long ago I had forgotten what they looked like)

The water pooling from bits of rain became green from the treated timber run-off...

Wierd :) as my kids reminded me - its like the "green soup" I made one adventurous dinner.... 

its ok but it 'looks wrong' haha :)

Finding this stage very encouraging - on our long journey of 

dreaming... planning... waiting... and waiting...

and finally seeing a new home arise from the ground... 

We hope it continues to be 'blue skies' ahead from here...