Every man and his dog is on site today

There are heaps of workmen on site today and yes as the post heading states there is even a big black dog sitting very obediently in our lounge room. I went out today because I had an appointment to show the guys where we would like the noggins but by the time I got there they had already been done in the places that I had previously marked so yaaaay we got our noggins!

This is an updated pic to show the brickwork now extends round to the front of the house. It is amazing how much they have done since yesterday arvo. Also the little "hat" things are now on the edges of our roof now, I have no idea what these are called. Things are looking very good for a Friday lockup, the frame guy said this is one of the fastest he has ever seen from frame to lockup. Tomorrow it will be 9 weeks since day one on site.

No rain and lots of progress

David spoke to our site supervisor today who seemed to be saying that the roof tilers had been delayed and would be coming on Wednesday. I decided to go past as he said the brickies would be there today, I was astounded to find we have a roof! Yes the roof tiles seem to be about 90% finished, I could not believe it! They are aiming for lockup to be this Friday.


The brick layers were busy on the right side of the house.

Lots of bricks done!

It has been raining most of the day today as well. It was even hailing earlier. I went by the house not expecting to find much but it looks like the brickies have been busy this week. They were not there today so this must have been done earlier this week. How exciting!

This is the left side of the house, the brickwork is two thirds finished on this side.


This is the back of the house where the brickwork is half finished.
Some guys were on the roof getting it ready for the tiles, they were working hard on the complicated frame work of wood to lay the tiles on, you can sort of see it in this pic.

Miserable Weather

Our roof tiles are still sitting on the ground. The weather has been terrible so I'm sure that would be holding things up. I drove past today and it looked like the gutters may have been worked on and some brickwork as been done around the back (I think). It was too wet to even take any pics or look properly but I will try again on Saturday. There may be some progress before then but the weather forecast is not good.

Gutters Started and Roof Tiles Delivered

The garage brickwork and the roof trusses were completed last week. Now the guttering is almost finished and the roof tiles have been delivered. It is hard to get a good photo today because the ground is so wet, I would have got covered in mud if I tried to take a picture down the side of the house. No work was done today we assume because the weather is bad.


This is a better view of the guttering
This is a close up of our roof tiles, it looks like they have delivered the right ones.
The is the best pic we could get of the overall front

This is a picture from last Thursday it shows the extended roof line of the Alfresco. The standard roofline is in line with the two walls, this was an upgrade.

All Wrapped Up

Todays lovely surprise was that our house has been fully wrapped and gleaming in the sun! This makes everything look a lot neater and when you go inside it really feels like you are in a room because you can't see straight out the wall anymore.

Most of the garage brickwork has been finished they just have to bring a crane in tomorrow to lift this giant steel bar across the opening of the garage so they can brick above it.
This is the back wall of our garage with the door that will be the entrance from the garage to the side yard
This pic shows most of the garage has been completed. The rest of the roof frame is still on track to be completed on Thursday which is great except that the frame invoice will follow immediately after that! The next things to happen after that will be facia, gutters and roof tiles.

Garage Brick Laying Finally Started!

Finally the brick laying has begun. They are doing an exceptionally neat job so far. The mortar we have chosen is "off white" so it will dry a lot lighter than it looks now. The bricks are Hawthorn and we are very happy with the colour. The guys told us that it will take til Thursday to brick up the garage and then the frame guys have to come back to complete the roof so we should see roof tiles delivered.

On an administration note our customer service officer finally got back to us a little over three weeks after she said she would saying that they would not refund us for the soil that was added to the pile of rubbish that we had to remove. This response was totally expected but three weeks later? The issue was already well and truly in the past, customer service in the administration area is again very under whelming.