The Roof.. The Roof.. The Roof Has Tiles!!!

Well boys and girls.. more progress! I'm really starting to like our SS even though I havent met him yet, but he has been pretty straight up with what's been happening with our house. He said that we'd have roof tiles by Christmas, and there they were, nearly finished on Christmas Eve. We've also had all our plumbing finished, our bi-fold doors installed, and the outer wall insulation put in as well. YAY!

Our bifolds.. from the inside..

and from the outside..

You can see some of our roof tiles here in front. You can also see the green, outer wall insulation which has been wrapped around the house.

And the same angle but with something different.. our tiles are up! Well, most of them.

Sortta close up of the roof tiles.. we chose "Gunmetal" cuz it was the closest colour to the one we wanted to upgrade to, but that cost too much!! Also, it matched our guttering and window frames.

Picture from across the road just to see the whole effect.. looks pretty good huh!?? There's a pile of sand in our driveway.. that means that they're gonna hopefully start bricking when they start back again in mid January. Yay!

Minor Update

Kir went to check out the site as we have recieved the second invoice from PD which means our frame is totally complete!! Woo hoo!! But there has been more progress...


They've started the plumbing and electricals and put up the guttering as well as the safety rails for the roof tilers, which definately means roof tiles by Christmas!! I'm hoping they can finish it in a week and a half.

Our plumbing? Or is that electricals.. LoL

Our bi-fold frame.

We Have Been Framed!

Ladies and gentlemen.. we have a frame and some windows!! YAY!! It took them an entire week to put up a house.. the mind boggles!

It's a little bit flooded.. haha.. the ground was so soft! But we had a look anyways! Everything seems to be in its place.. the only thing we're worried about is the fridge space. It doesnt look like it's the right size so we'll have to do some measuring, but it probably is.. no harm in checking.

Anyways.. roof tiles next!! More excitement to come!!

Progress!! Stage One Complete!

Well.. things are certainly happening quickly. Just two weeks ago we had nothing but a scraped site, a port-a-loo and some temp fencing. Last weekend, some friends drove past and said that they saw our pipes and electricals had been done. Kir went to check out what was happening on Thursday night and they had put up all the forms for our slab!

We were told by our Site Supervisor (SS) that the slab would be poured on Saturday, so come Saturday afternoon, we were driving up to see what was going on. On arrival, the concreters were still there and had just about finished the job. A cement truck came tearing up the road with the last of the cement needed to finish off. And voila! We had a slab!

Yes people.. a slab! All nice and freshly laid. This was taken on Sunday afternoon. I cant believe we're standing on concrete laid just the day before! So it's all progressing nicely so far.

We went again today to have a look as SS said the frame should be starting on Monday. Again.. SURPRISE! We had half the frame up for the house already! In one day!

So the time marches on. Progress reports as we visit the site.. hopefully at least once a week!