Upper floor is down!

The Upper floor is now down - just yellow tongue particle board for now but will be floor boards

And some pics from today.

We have built the first part of the garage wall on the right hand side. Should be finished tomorrow.

More progress

Here are some more pics from yesterday, when the joists for the second floor went up. Hopefully we will be laying the floor itself in the next day or two.

here are also some pics of the inside. below is the family room looking towards the pantry in the middle, the stairs to the entrance on the left and the corridor to the lounge on the right (where chris is)

looking at the kitchen with the study behind and the lounge behind that

from the other direction - lounge first, then study, then kitchen then family room

the family room and entertaining area

Progress again...

Well, we had some pretty big delays over Christmas and not much happened but we are finally getting back on track!!

Here are some pics from today, although, as they were taken with my camera phone the quality is less than great. But you get the idea....

The first pic shows the inside of the house from the lounge room looking towards the kitchen.

The third pic is taken from outside of the loungeroom looking towards where the french doors will be.

The next shows how far we have got ie the steel beams are in place and we have started the floor for the second storey.

The last pic shows our water tank which will be under the alfresco area.

Next will be the frame for the second floor, which will be exciting.

Yay! We have a frame started!

Happily, the frame has started to go up. So now we can really get a feel for the sizes of the rooms and how things will look :)

We have made some progress this week despite being away in QLD for four days. The water tanks are in and we have got most of the floor down (yellowtongue). Later on we will be covering the floor with Jarrah timber floor boards.

The next stage will be frame going up. I can't wait for that. It will really start to look like a house then.

We have also decided to make some amendments to the plan - which will mean going back to council but should be a fairly simple process (lets hope!). We are going to go up over the garage as well and have a large studio there. Eventually it may become self contained accommodation or perhaps we will make it into a master bedroom suite one day. For now, it will just create a lot of extra space and will be much cheaper to do now rather than in 5-10 years.

November

Here is the concrete slab for the water tanks under the house...















We have made more progress. We have now got the steel bearers in place, some of our timber for the frame has been delivered, our water tanks have arrived and we have some of the timber joists in place. So going well so far!



Two tanks - both 4700L which is great.

Its been a while since the last update and I apologise but we have been a little busy. However, we have the slab down - yay! it went down last weekend despite an incredible amount of rain. Our poor concreter was there till 9pm on Saturday night making sure it was ok. So far it looks great.

We have filled in all the trenches around the sub floor and the next step is the order the steel (tomorrow) for the bearers and joists for the lower levels. As you can see, Chris has been busy measuring up - unfortunately due to the rain, we have a bit of a swimming pool.

The orange around the perimeters is Kordon, our termite protection and the black paint on the walls is our water proofing.

There has been a bit of rain recently so things have slowed a little, but I am still most impressed with the progress. Here are some pics of our lovely creek on our block. And of our progress.

We have now got more walls and are just about ready to pour the concrete slab for the garage (where the orange plastic is now). The slab will be part suspended. The rest of the house (to the left) will be bearers and joist.

We are still aiming to have our roof on by Xmas! Cross fingers.

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.

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!