the roof ther roof

well after a weeks delay for what ever reason (i'm sure they have a good reason) they worked today like little speedy gonzalis and started this is what we have so far.

Quickie

Just a quick update. The brick work was completed on the 10th and the roof guys are starting on Friday (which would be tomorrow), and the bank has respectfully requested their $44, 000 worth of brick money. I was hoping that they were going to forget about it. Oh well. More pics when the roof is on.

nearly there

Just a few photos of the bricks going up there is only the side of the garage walls, the theatre walls and the front walls to go. I love my WIR. Told they will be all done by the end of the week. Hope there are a few spare bricks for the letterbox :)

Let the rain stop

Well we have done nothing but wish that the rain would stop for the last 3 weeks (bad i know we need the rain) and finally it has, well not completely stopped but enough for the nice brickies to turn up and start doing some work yay!!!

this is what they build houses with

With all the stuff with the power going on we didn't get a chance to go and look at our bricks until yesterday so here they are. How excited am i all we need is for the rain to go away so those marvelous and messy brickies can do some work :)

Uh Oh

Got a call from our construction manager today - it turns out that western power hasn't finished connection in the area we are building and won't until late August . AAAARRRRGH. Meaning we now have to pay for a generator fro the brickies to have access to power and possibly the roof carpenters as well. They are putting it in as a provisional cost of $2000 but say they only end up normally costing $500-600. Payable at the end of construction but we may have earthworks money left to cover it. Not happy :(

Concrete Me

Went up for a visit today and amazingly the slab was laid on time. Exactly when they said it would be. I'm surprised to date that things are happening on time at the moment since i keep hearing some peoples horror stories. I know it early but still nothing has gone wrong to date. As you can see below this is our house, 4th in the street to have the slab down!!!

More work on Friday to have some drains, power, water etc connected, excess sand and a clean up on Tuesday and brick are meant to be delivered next Thursday so well see how we go.

Apologies for the not so good quality of the photos only had the mobile phone camera with us. I forgot the digital (who does that when they are building a house???)

This is me and my partner. You have already met the dog :) thats all for now