Saturday, September 19, 2009

We have walls!






Well, we are pretty excited. After a tough week in reasonably hot weather, we have got the walls up for the lower level (ie sub floor). Our brickies are amazing. They have worked extra hard, they are fast and their work impeccable. Our engineer is so impressed he is going to start recommending them to his other clients. Sometimes it really pays to go with your gut feeling and not just who comes in with the cheapest quote.

The next stage is the pouring of the slab for the garage and laying the steel bearers and joist for the first floor.

Thursday, September 10, 2009




Here are some pics from the last few days. Me in the rain - our first rain since starting!

We have had our bricks delivered - yes they are bright red! BUT they are commons and will be rendered so all is good.

Can you see how much dirt has been removed? compare these pics to the earlier ones - good $10k worth of earth moving there - and that is cheap!