Gutters and Roof Battons

Catch Up Post #4 - 

Day 55 (Wed 23rd June) 

saw work on the roof's GUTTERS and TRIM.

Trim on the Portico (entry)...

Guttering and trim put on the edges all around the house :)))))  

This was mentioned in an earlier quick post I did (as I got a little behind on sharing all the progress).

Our bathtub also turned up, and was put into the pantry to wait patiently to be put into place :)

Around Day 57 (Fri 25rd June) we saw quite a bit of RAINY WEATHER - making the house construction very wet work for the carpenters.

The guys were amazing and just kept on working - we are so grateful that the build is now continuing. We spent sooo much time waiting due to wet weather at the beginning... what a welcome relief it is to see construction progress in spite of the rain! Thanks to the great tradesmen!

 These pics shows the roof battons (the horizontal lines) now on the roof surface. 

Front left side view.

Back view.

 

The roof bracing...                    The roof scaffolding...

And the Front Portico Post is put into place :)))))

Good stuff :)

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...