Getting There...

Having great fun setting it all up.

A FAMILY!

As hoped - we will be moving into the new house with an additional family member Jedi (Jed)!!!!

So Close - So Far

Only a few more days till we move in but there's so much to be done!!! The oven and rangehood are in and the fans look great installed. Bryan put up the letterbox and we've started on some temporary fencing.

2 weeks to go!!

Well we have our handover date!! December 7th!! The tiling has been done, driveway been poured, alfresco concreted. Just the electrical and odds and ends (mirrors, shower screens, garage door, blah blah blah) to go. Woohoo!

Hurry Up -We want to move in!

Gooping and a Kitchen

The Kitchen is in but all the windows are gooped and we are locked out so the only picture we have is through the only ungooped window! The house is looking great and really taking shape now. The front facade is on its way but it looks like someone has reversed their car into one of the pillars in the front of the house taking out a sizeable chunk of brick - nice of them hey?

It's a House!

Still not at lock up yet, but so exciting to see it taking shape - it's a real house now!

Week 11

Tuesday will mark the start of the 12th week of construction on our house.. hopefully it will also mean we arrive at lockup!

We should have been at lockup by this weekend.. unfortunately we had rain and thunderstorms everyday last week which slowed things down a little - but they are still confident that we will be in before Christmas! Luckily - for our builder anyway!- we decided to get them to do our driveway as well which gave them the opportunity to add another week to our contract period.

Anyhoo the brickwork is about 2/3rds done now. I wasn't sure how the double height bricks would look. Traditionally I haven't been a fan of them, but they looked good with the flush offwhite mortar at the CSR brick display (albeit on a very small section of wall) so I thought id giv ethem a try. They look pretty swell to me - especilly with the white windows that Michelle choose :)

Windows and Doors

Hello chums!

We had a meeting onsite with our supervisor this morning to ask a few questions. The roofing guys were also there pointing the tiles which are looking swell!

Apparently we should be locked out of the house by next weekend with all the brick work and plasterboard having been done - fingers crossed!

One Day Roof

Amazing - a roof in one day. The Pictures show Monday morning and Monday afternoon. A big thanks to Ricci for the photos.

We're Guttered

The Gutters are up and window frames and roof tiles (modelled by Bryan) have been delivered. We haven't had any response from Adenbrook and the bedroom window is still the wrong size. There are lots of little things around the house that look wrong, like noggins falling down, however our Site Supervisor was awfully rude when asked if we could join him at the site one day to ask some questions so we are unsure how these will be addressed. Not much progress in the last week though. Maybe next week something will be done...

The Trusses are Up

Things are coming along great. The trusses are on and the frame is complete. Can't wait for the next phase!!

Framed

The frame has started to go up! Unfortunately it doesn't quite match the plans but we have pointed this out to Adenbrook and they are supposed to be rectifying this. Also one of the vertical supports of the brand new retaining wall has a split down it and is coming away from the wall. It's a little disappointing and i just want to say "hey, we don't have the time to be checking up on your work" but in the grand scheme of things both problems are minor and there is plenty of time to fix them. Let's see what happens...

Daylight

Just a couple of pictures of the slab during the day - as you can see in one of them our frame has also been delivered and is due to be completed by September 12.. Yipee!

GO!

A late night visit to our block revealed the slab that was laid today!

Ready, set...

Todays update comes courtesy of Ricci and his camera - thanks Ricci!

Looks like we are just about ready to have our slab poured - woo! We will finally be able to see exactly were the house is going and how much spacewe will have. Good times indeed. I don't think ive ever been so keen to get a bill

:)

The Slush

We are supposed to be in a drought. Anyone wanting to know where the water is, see our block. The slab is booked for Tuesday but maybe that is wishful thinking on the builder's behalf????

We Landscaped!!!...and the piers are down.

This morning with some help from our parents/in-laws and a good friend, Gen, we did some landscaping along the back fence! We bought some railway sleepers and laid them along the back fence to hold in the dirt when Adenbrook pushes the dirt down. We have a number of them left over if anyone needs some...... They have also done the piering and the surveying AND we have a portaloo that works (thanks for checking Dave). It's all moving along despite all the rock. You can see us working hard here - Bryan is covered in dirt and Michelle is overseeing the project from her coveted "i have an injured disc" management position.