Pictures of Frame Stage So Far - Week 8, Saturday - (Day 55)

Here are a few pictures of our Frame so far. We have scheduled our first meeting with our Supervisor for this coming Tuesday. Will be good to have a couple of questions answered and have a good look around!

This is the front of the house so far. Garage on the right, entry in the middle with the front porch and the study on the left.

This is taken from the rear corner of the block, you are looking at the main bedroom ensuite on the corner, then the two bedrooms down the side of the house. The main bedroom is to the right of the ensuite.

This is taken from the rear of the block, looking at the alfresco and in to the family, dining and kitchen areas. Main Bedroom door to the alfresco is on the left hand wall of the alfresco area.

This is taken looking down the left hand side of the house when looking from the street. We have about 1.3M from the side boundary to the edge of the wall of the house. We are looking at putting stepping pavers along with river pebbles down this side. This path leads to the alfresco at the back of the block. We will have a gate at the front of the house.

You can also see here that the block retaining wall on the side boundary has been replaced by the timber sleeper retaining wall.

Frame Construction Begun - Week 7, Wednesday - (Day 45)

During our ritualistic drive by the block today, we discovered that the builders have begun putting the frame up. It is all pre-fabricated so hopefully it should not take too long to put up! Will post pictures this weekend.

Slab Poured! - Week 5 Thursday - (Day 32)

Dropped by on my lunch break today and the slab was poured yesterday. We are very happy with the progress so far. Hopefully the weather holds good for a while so that this sort of progress continues!

This is the slab taken from the front corner of the house (where the garage entrance is) looking over to the rear of the block

This from the Eastern corner from the same location of previous posts. In the foreground will be the study with the main entrance in the middle and then the garage front

This is the view from the south looking north. In the foreground is the Alfresco. The main bedroom will have a door to the Alfresco to the left as you look at it here. The other door to the Alfresco is from the living / TV area to the front.

This is a view from the block behind us looking over the fence. Here you can see the whole slab.

Apparently the frame will be delivered by tomorrow, so they should make a start on the frame next week after the Show Holiday on monday.

Waffle Pods & Formwork Mostly Complete - Week 5, Tuesday - (Day 30)

Dropped by after work today to check on what has happened.

Looks like the waffle pods got delivered on monday and the workers have been busy doing up the formwork and putting in the reinforcement and Waffle Pods. Most of it looks complete apart from a few of the plastic holders holding up the re-inforcement at the back still to be hooked up. Looks like slab might be poured by the end of the week!

This is the same view from the previous post from the East looking West.

This is from the rear of the block

Survey, Piering & Plumbing - Week 4, Saturday - (Day 27)

We went for a walk up to the block today for a bit of a look.

The Surveyor was onsite on Wednesday setting out the pegs on the site.

The piering was done on Thursday. As far as I can tell, they dig holes through the fill to a depth where there is solidity in the land and fill the holes with concrete. I think this basically helps the slab out if there is alot of movement in the land. Dont have any photos to show of this however.

The underground plumbing was all done and completed yesterday, Friday. We have some pictures below of how the site looks so far...

This is just a shot looking over the block from the East looking to the West.

This shot is looking from the back South Western Corner of the block. The pipes in the foreground are for the Ensuite.

This is a view of the whole block from the rear wall.