House frame going up this week

We met with our builder out on site today. The last week didn't see much happen on the block as it's been raining on and off, however it's given the slab time to settle now, so that's a nice bonus.

The builder wanted to walk us through a few things.
Due to having brickwork in all the in fills (above the windows) it now means in order to finish the external brick work so it's flush with the eve; we need a ceiling height of 2610mm instead of 2570mm (as were originally in the plans). As a result we'll end up with 40mm higher ceilings for no extra cost! I'm happy with that outcome!

This weekend was the only chance for a while we've been able to get down to the block (between sick doggies - both came down with kennel cough, and being crook myself (a dose of bronchitis), and next week-end I'll be out of action as I'll just be out from surgery).

We noted the meter box has gone in, as well as we've got delivery of all the timber, windows, doors and bricks.


The builder has mapped out everything on the slab (where walls, doors, braces, etc. are to all go). It makes it a lot easier now as we can walk around on the slab and see how it will all look and have the right sizes. Things do look different from going from a plan to actually seeing it at the real 1:1 ratio.

It will only be a matter of a few weeks and we should be at "lock-up" stage.

From there things will move inside and we'll start seeing the internal work commence. It will also mean that any bad/wet weather won't delay us further.

All in all, we're on about schedule and we should hopefully be able to move in come mid-October/start of November.