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