Lock up!

Well we really are into fixing.. but lock up :P It was delayed because of our brick error which did end up being a bit serious. They have had to render the back of the house. This was our compromise, we are left with a really dodgy looking side wall after Austral delivered 2 different batches and our choice was to accept the compromise or delay our build time at our own expense. Feels like we got screwed either way sorry to be blunt! Nevertheless now I am getting used to the idea of render out in the entertaining area. And of course I am pretty excited that the house is feeling so 'house' like now that the plaster etc is happening. Thanks for following along!

Bifolds from inside. There is a view of the You Yangs from that little window and if we had known we might have put another window next to it. But it is possible we won't keep the view depending on who builds down that hill. We had a view of them from the dining table, but the neighbours next door built tall ceilings and so we miss the view by about well less than a half metre!

Everything plastered. This is a few days ago and now there are cornices and skirting boards too! Have been slow with the blog updates. Hopefully more pics soon.

What you are looking at here is our vegie garden area (or one of). There is a retaining wall and then a path beside it so that the patches are higher up to save our back.

These are the wall sthat will end up being rendered. Loving my bifolds! The boys are going to build a deck and some sort of permanent cover so that the children can play here in the winter with protection for the elements. If anyone has ideas about more stylish ways of doing that - appreciated them!

View from the neighbours house :) Still render to this front area. We are so nervous about colours with that especially given that our brick is now a different colour to what we matched with.

In other better news!

Exciting stuff at our place, things keeping moving which is awesome. Roof on, gutters fascia, bricks starting, inside electrical almost finished, plumbing done, bath thingo in, BIFOLD DOORS IN! WOO HOO! Front door and garage door are on. Lock up here we come..


We don't like the front door so we are hoping it will grow on us as things progress and it is painted. Otherwise its an easy thing to change post handover. We thought it would look classic but it just dates the otherwise modern look of the house.

-This was me having a moment like that Colorbond ad.. like ahhh the roof, its bewdi-ful! ;P

 

 

Brick issue

The next post will be updating with general progress; but before we get to that, we have our first real 'issue'; check out this brick error; can you see the garage wall at the start of the shot is how the bricks -should- look, all one colour, no variations. Now check the southern wall of the house to the right - it is in shadow but you can see that the bricks are all over the shop, light and dark and just look crazy. Eek!

At this stage we will be asking for this crazy wall  be rendered - but we really wanted the exposed brick at the back area. Hopefully a full render won't be required.

A cracking pace

Wow, some awesome progress has been happenign at our place. Frames, windows in, gutters, fascia and A ROOF! Enjoy these pics.Latest to oldest. The roof is finished now, but didn't have my phone with my take pics. Enjoy - especially my Mum in Paraguay!

Frames!

And just like that, frames were ready to go up too! WOW WOW WOW

We have a slab!

Things are moving along with all credit to our awesome SS..here are some pics to share.

Woo hoo! We have a slab :)

We are off..

Not much time heading into the silly season but wanted to share our great progress..

Standing in the back left corner of our block for this shot. Site cut!

Piers done, plumbing and electrical underground in.. a loo, tap.. its all happening! Unfortunate issue going on with this fill side, needs a retaining wall and PD are saying it doesn't. Anyway, so far so great.