Our bricks are going up....

As promised, yesterday the brickies started working on our house. They managed to brick 20 rows to most of the front and left side of the house. I am really happy with their work so far, their work is really neat.

Now that I can see what they look like up, I really love my bricks. I just found out that they are the same bricks they used on the Seaview display house at Kellyville, so now I love them even more. I cannot wait to see how much they get done today :)

Frames complete

Frames are all complete now and we are really happy with them. It is starting to look like a house now. Here is a picture of the front of the house with nearly all the windows in.

The front windows have been covered up with plastic to protect them from rain as they are wooden windows and not stained yet.

Here is the left side of the house and some of our bricks. Apparently there are 18000 bricks going into this house. Sounds like the brickies will be busy.



Here is our kitchen window. It was an upgrade and we are upset because it has a frame through the middle of it. Apparently they put in the wrong window and it will be fixed up soon.




Here are our bricks. They are Boral Escura smooth face bricks in choc tan colour. I am hoping they look good on our house. They are a bit darker than I thought they would be but I think I like them. I guess I will find out next week when the brickies start working.

First floor frames

Our windows arrived last Wednesday. I cannot wait to see them go in to see how they look. 

 The boys have been working really hard and have almost completed the first floor frames already. Next will be the roof frames. This is the left side of the house.

 This is the front of the house and more windows. The cedar windows will go in the front of the house and the woodland grey ones will go everywhere else. 

Our SS said our bricks will arrive on Monday/Tuesday. We are looking forward to seeing them as we have not seen these bricks in person yet. We originally picked out different bricks, but Bingara would not approve them as they wanted us to have smooth face bricks. We had to choose bricks really quickly so that our plans could go to council, so we chose them out of a brick catalogue. Hopefully they look just as good in real life....

 Our frames are dues to be completed on Wednesday and the brickies are booked in to start the following Monday. Things are really starting to move along. Fingers crossed we will be in by Christmas.....

The frames are here

Well after the long wait the frames arrived on Monday as promised. The site supervisor told us that he had guys booked to start putting them up on Tuesday, so I was very surprised (and very excited) when I drove past that afternoon to find that half of the bottom floor was standing. Pretty good effort seeing as or SS told us the frames were being delivered to our block at lunchtime.

 Cannot wait to drive past this afternoon and see what progress they make today.

We have a slab!!

Was so excited today as I drove past the block to take photos of the completed formwork only to find that the slab had already been poured. That's two days earlier than we were told it would be. Fences had also been put up. Really loving our SS at the moment as everything is being completed before we expect it to be. 

The bad news is that our frames will not be ready until the 27th May which is 18 days away..... Oh well at least the slab will have plenty of time to cure.

Front of the house

Back of the house

Plumbing

I drove past the block Monday afternoon and the plumbing had been done. The rio and styrofoam blocks had been delivered too (although I was worried about this since we don't have fences yet and it could be easily be stolen). 

Hubby drove past last night and said all the formwork was finished. I will drive past this afternoon and take some photos. Things are really moving along fast- it is really exciting!

Piers

Hubby drove past our block on Friday, and to our surprise the piers had already been completed and the form work for the slab was partially completed. 

We talked to our SS and he said that the slab will be poured next Friday (weather permitting). We are really happy with how things are progressing so far.