Our Acreage Dream . . .

DAY 22 - We've been framed!

No work on site the past 2 days. I thought they were waiting for more scaffolding to be put up Tuesday, but only a small barrier for above the porch roof and a scaffolding platform and ladder for the stairwell were already there Monday afternoon. I think they may have gone to work on another building site for a couple of days as they had until today to finish.

So after 2 long days of nothingness, today our frame is done! At least I think we're done... there's a piece of timber across the front which I thought they may fix the facia on, but it doesn't go around the whole house. We've had to pay a heap of $ extra for timber noggins to be added to the end of the roof trusses for bushfire requirements (to fix the facia to), but I don't see them - not that I'm sure what I'm looking for. I know what a noggin is, and I think I know where it should be. I'll add that to the list of things to check on...

Alfresco/rumpus roof

Garage roof

Upstairs roof

Upstairs man hole

Garage man hole

Our facia & gutters arrived today!

After 3 weeks, we have the shell of our house.
176 days left...

DAY 19 - More framework

Monday, 3rd September - lots of little framing stuff today. I'm sure it wasn't a little bit of work, but not as visually surprising as the whole house frame going up.

Garage roof frame completed

It looks like a big mess of wood, but I'm sure some engineer in an office somewhere designed it to last

All ready for the roofers

Daniel noticed the bathroom wall frame had been put in back to front so the window was
in the shower instead of over the bath - oops! A bit closer to nature (& neighbours) than we had wanted :)
They had to rebuild the frame and I don't think they were too pleased for the extra work.

Bath on the left with window above. Shower on right with shower niche (that's where the
big window was when the frame was wrong)


The bath hob is built

Anyone for a bath?

It won't be so much fun once the walls are in :(

Alfresco post - I love it! It will be stained Ebony to match the alfresco and pantry doors

Porch posts and roof frame go up

The top view of the porch roof. It will have guttering to send rain water to the tanks.
We're not quite sure how this will look and how they brick it.

The porch should be a nice place to sit once we concrete or deck it.

The upper roof trusses have been craned upstairs and are waiting to go on...

I'm told tomorrow the scaffolding goes up so they can complete the roof trusses.

179 days and counting. Will it really take that long?

DAY 16 - 2nd Storey Frame Goes On

I find it amazing that in 2 days the house frame is almost up! Today, Friday 31st August the 2nd storey frame is almost completed. We did get light rain last night, but thankfully it just settled the dust and didn't get real muddy.

It was a busy day for the chippies, they were just packing up when we visited after school. We waited for them to leave so we could go have a good look.