And just for something different.....!

Yes, the plasterers are still going! From what I could see, they have been doing the finishing touches on all the joins (bogging???!). No cornices or architraves as yet; I don't know whether they can do them until the bricks are up?! Only time will tell!

xMel

More plaster....and bricks?

No photos today unfortunately.....because.....they've locked all our doors!!!! Big boo hoo! We drove past this morning and the plasterers were there again, doing the inside of the garage. Good work boys!

We drove past again this afternoon, to find the doors locked, but as I was having a chin-wag with our neighbours (who coincidentally have just had a baby girl last week!), another big Austral truck with bricks arrived. "I wonder who they're for?", I thought. Next thing, this nice bloke comes up and double checks the address - more bricks for us! 14 pallets to be exact. "Good luck finding room for those!", I said! "Yeh", he agreed, as he walked around the place to see where he could put them (there isn't much room!) I had no idea all our bricks weren't there! Goes to show how much I know about building a brick house (not much!).

So there you have it! I think that will be all for this week. Don't know where the brickies are; hopefully doing Arkraider's house!, but I have to say, we are delighted with how it is all going so far!

xMel

And again!

More plaster and it is pretty much all done! All walls and ceilings are done, apart from our bedroom, the ensuite and the bathroom! Looking fabulous! The boys had their first walk-through this afternoon and were so excited about their bedrooms, now that they actually feel like rooms!

These two pics are of our main kitchen/family/dining area.

xMel

Wow! More plaster!

Loads more plaster today! We have ceilings all the way through now!! Some rooms are completely finished and others are not far off! It's amazing the difference having walls and ceilings make!

The first shot is from the lounge looking through the feature wall to the study.

The second shot is the hallway looking to the front door and the third shot is the ceiling of the kitchen/family area.

The only error I could spot was that the study is completely walled in - it's supposed to have a door into the garage, but I'm sure someone will realise that eventually and rectify it! If not, we'll mention it when we next talk to the supervisor.

On another note, we saw Little Chick again today (ultrasound!). She is still a 'she' and currently weighs 2.6kg!!!! Great to know everything is going well in there! Exactly 4 weeks today until she comes! (I'm having a caesar, that's why I'm saying 'exactly'!!!!!! We are booked in!)



Anyway, as always, we look forward to what goes on tomorrow!!!

xMel

Insulation and plaster!

I was preparing myself this morning, prior to visiting the house! The bricks had been delivered and we were quietly hopeful the brickies might be starting today, beautiful weather and all, but we are also aware (from building the first time!), that what you want usually doesn't happen! As I turned the corner into our street, the house across the road was literally covered in brickies (they must have had brick issues too, as their building stopped for about three weeks and their bricks were finally delivered on Friday). Only one little ute was parked in our driveway. Didn't look like a brickie's ute to me! There were a couple of tool boxes in the back with 'Gyprock' stickers on it. "Hmmm, plaster", I thought, "maybe just dropping more stuff off".

Boy did I get a surprise when I dropped in this afternoon!!!! All the wall insulation had been put in, and a fair bit of plaster work had been started, namely in the study, lounge room and walk-in-robe! I could not believe my eyes!!! I didn't realise that this sort of stuff could still be done even if the bricks weren't! As is my favourite catchcry of the moment, "Yee haa", I yelled!!!! Can't wait to see what happens next!!!!

xMel

A little light relief....!

Yes. Here she is! This is me! Thought I'd give you all a laugh and put a shot of the preggy chick on the blog! Admittedly, hubby was standing on a chair so I could look up, hence ridding myself of the three extra chins I have acquired, not to mention a nice J-Lo butt which fortunately doesn't show in this pic! Five weeks to go!!!!

xMel

Yee Haa!!! We have bricks!!!!!!

Well how damn excited were we on our trip to the house after school! Rawdon Hill were as good as their word!!! Wednesday the 20th for delivery of bricks and here they are!!! What fine specimens!!!!!!! We sat and watched the unloading - very exciting stuff you know, especially for two small boys!!!!!! A big wave and a clap of hands was given to the wonderful Austral man who did the hard work!!! We are so excited!

xMel

Elves!

As usual, we have been slack and didn't visit the house this weekend - we had Jett's 6th birthday party, amongst other things, and I'd been doing my usual drive-bys and seen nothing out of the ordinary. My dad and brother both made mention last night about the ducted heating (they'd been up on the weekend!) and I'm going, "What ducted heating?"!!!! So up I went this morning and made the effort to haul this 8 months pregnant body out of the car! Sure enough, the ducted heating elves had been, along with the plaster board elves!!!!!! Very exciting!

So this brings us to Tuesday. Our bricks are hopefully "fingers crossed" due for delivery tomorrow! How quick has that gone? Let's hope they arrive!!!!!!

xMel

Shower bases and bath!

Lovely to know we haven't been forgotten about even though our bricks haven't arrived! Discovered the lock-up door, shower bases and bath installed today! Yey!

Our eldest turned 6 yesterday, so it's been an exciting week for us so far, which will culminate with his big party on Sunday with his school friends! He's been a very spoilt boy so far! Six weeks until Little Chick arrives too!

xMel

More tiles and electricals

Well the roof is almost finished and all the electrical cabling etc., was done today too! What a shame we now have to wait for the bricks....roll on the 20th! Everybody keep your fingers crossed that the issue is resolved by then!

xMel

More tiles

More hard work by the boys today!

xMel

Wrapping and Roof Tiles

A little birdie told me that there were boys working on our roof today, so after school, we did our usual trip up! Not only were they putting the tiles on but we had some wrapping done too! What a shame the bricks won't be here for a few weeks; they are going so well otherwise! Good work lads!

xMel

New completion date....

We received a letter in the mail from the builder today, confirming our conversation on Friday about the bricks. Due to the brick issue, we have a new completion date of 9th February, 2009 (original was 29th December, 2008). This also takes into account the 3 week annual Christmas shut-down period 'applicable to the Construction industry'. So there you have it! It looks a lot less likely that we'll be in for Christmas (we were quietly hopeful because the building had been going so well so far), but oh well, these things can't be helped.

xMel

Rain, rain, you can stay!

I can't believe I just wrote that! But alas, we had a call from our builder this morning, letting us know that there is a production issue with the bricks we have chosen and they won't be able to be delivered until 20th August (three weeks away). Big bummer....oh well, these things can't be helped. So there will be little movement on the house for a while, other than the roof tiles and the wrap. I might save some petrol for a while too!!!!!

xMel