Ok, so now it's starting to look like our house! It's been flat for so long, on plans, and on the slab. Now the frame has started the rooms look bigger and it resembles the house we chose.
Around 6.20am I thought 'they must be starting the frame soon'. Most of the trades are started by 6.30am, so when I went there a bit past 9am I thought they may have a few walls up and be starting on this jigsaw puzzle of a frame. Not so... they had almost finished the ground floor frame!!!
They weren't a real chatty crew. A man in charge was cracking the whip on the younger blokes. I asked one of them how long it would take the frame to go up and he said he didn't know as this was his first one! Someone will check his work, right? I didn't venture inside the safety fence, not for safety concerns over the nail guns going off, but that I might get chewed out from the boss. He was all business, but maybe that will get the job done quicker.
I hung around for a bit, taking pics of them at work in their cage, hee hee. They soon took a smoko break so I plucked up the nerve to chat to the boss. He was a bit more friendly, but I did note that he sat by himself for his break and the other guys sat on the other side of the house!
He said by this time next week he should be finished. That's longer than I thought (going from the house down the road), but I hadn't factored in that they have a floor to lay upstairs. And they also have to get in scaffolding for the upper floor or roof, I'm not sure exactly which. He said that's coming Tuesday. So I'll check each day to see the progress.
I thought the slab going down was exciting. This beats that!
Around 9am today -
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| Roof trusses have arrived! |
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| It's like a flat pak house - I hope they read the assembly instructions! |
After school - all the beams are in as are the floor joists
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We go to look at the frame, but all the little man wants to do is play in the dirt! Who needs landscaping...
He's actually checking his creations from the previous visit - the workers have squished some of it :( | |
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| Garage |
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| Study window |
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| Front door |
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| Lounge window |
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| Powder room |
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| Laundry |
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| Walk in linen off laundry |
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| Dining/family room - looking from kitchen |
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| Kitchen/Dining - looking from family room |
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| Butler's pantry - no the house doesn't come with a butler :( |
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Large window in kitchen looking onto the back alfresco area.
Imagine if we had a glass roof looking at all the trees. Sigh... |
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| Rumpus room |
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| Alfresco - nice bit of wood holding the beams up! The real beam is laying on the ground |
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| Alfresco |
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| Rear window to rumpus |
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| Garage side of house |
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| Great view of the tank from the family room! |
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| Em - I'm so cool... J - she's crazy! |
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| J - look at me! Em - I'm a statue. J nearly fell out the window! | |
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| Future stacker doors to alfresco off family & rumpus rooms |
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| The centre of the wall has a window as the splashback. Will be a nice view! |
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| Our floor joists |
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| End of the day |
It's raining lightly now but I think the worst will pass by us. There is so much loose dirt
onsite it may be a mud pit tomorrow.
183 days and counting...
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