Cornice started

We now have cornice up in the master bedroom, ensuite, WIR, WIP and the powder room. The square set to the living areas has also been completed. It's looking so good.

Master bedroom

Dining and Kitchen from Master doorway. Door on the left is the WIP,
door on the right is the passage

The bricks are really coming along too. They had the saw break down on them on Thursday so lost a lot of good time - and good weather - but were up and running again for Friday. As I was leaving the block around lunchtime today, the final 4 pallets of Timbercrete arrived. The brickie is hoping that the bricks will be finished by the end of next week which would make us at lock up!

Not much blue left now...

Stuart is out there today spreading all the delivered recycled concrete and attempting to turn it into more driveway. He can't quite do it how we want to as there are a couple of sand deliveries for the concretors still in the way.

Plaster hung

All the walls have plaster now and they have started sealing the joins. The brickies have also been getting quite a bit done and are working on the lower level around the back of the house now. They erected some trestles at the end of last week, but I can't see that any higher brickwork has been started yet.

We had organised to get another 50 tonne of the recycled concrete out to help fix the holes various trucks have made as well as continue the drive on up to our garage, but it hasn't been delivered yet. Going to be quite a bit of work for Stu spreading that once it all arrives.

The two house tanks were delivered late last week. Due to the rain and boggyness of the ground, they could only be delivered to our gate, don't think the builders are going to be happy having to move them so far.
Stu spent a few hours out there on Sunday backfilling a trench...he got a little dirty...

Front of house

The living room raked ceiling. I love it!

Stu playing in the mud hehe

Bricks and Plastering Started

Very exciting to see the house looking more like a house. The plaster is going up so fast. The ceiling in the living room looks great - but it's very echoey in there. Most rooms have the board up now, but the joining and so on hasn't been started yet. Very impressed with the progress the last 2 days.

Standing where the oven will be

The bricks started today and they are already looking really good. We were a bit worried as we don't have any corner bricks, and with our bricks being a larger size then standard doing the corners would make the whole house offset rather then having each brick centred over another, but it looks really good still. I have also been stressing as Timbercrete cannot be acid washed so the brickies have to be really careful and neat when laying them and they are doing a brilliant job.

Garage corner

Odds and Sods

The plasterer has been delayed until Monday now, which is probably just as well as Stu still hasn't quite finished the wall insulation (between some of the rooms as a soundproofing measure), despite the fact he has been there every evening this week.
We had some doors put on yesterday which was pretty exciting until I realised that the wrong front door had been put on. It's the right style, but has been primed for painting rather then being a wood ready for varnishing. KB have told me they will change it later on, which Freya is upset about as she likes the door being aqua. The laundry door is also on, and the internal door into the garage as well.
We were contacted by Beaumonts yesterday, giving us the news that the carpet we wanted is no longer available. I asked if we could find something similar, and today Karen got back to me telling me they had managed to find a roll in Sydney that will do our house. It then got a bit strange as she told me despite the price not changing since we did the selections, it was now going to cost me more. I queried this, and spoke to Ian at KB who contacted Karen then got back to me within 10 minutes assuring me that we were not being charged more and were still within our budget.
The other thing that came up is that Stu discovered one of the windows had these strange little beads between the two glass panes. So I took some pics and forwarded to the window company, who agreed immediately that it was faulty and have ordered a replacement.
The plumbers have also been back, doing some more fitting off, and the carpenters have done some bracing to my book shelf/wall, and have now attached it to the floor.
So although not much has changed at the house, there has still been quite a bit happening.

The faulty window