Brickies....21-10-2008

I went early this morning to take some photos before i went to work, surprised to see that the brick layers was already there working.

This afternoon i went back to the building site and the brick layers have completed part of the house. From my estimate, all the brickwork should finished either this week or early next week. See photos below...

This is where the Gas water heater will be installed

Plumbing has been put in for the bath taps.

Windows In

Friday last week, the builders had put all the windows on the house. The black frame on the windows look good.

I arrived home today to find the bricks have been delivered, it was too dark to take photos so i may have some tomorrow depending on if i have to work late again.

Gutters up 15-10-2008

The gutters that was delivered yesterday have been put up by the builders. First sign of colours, the black and white looks good. I also took a panoramic of the house... will do this from now on because it just looks so cool!

About the 21K from Rudd, looks like we are not getting it. Basically it applies to all who sign from 14 October 2008 to 30 June 2009. Bummer... 14K extra would have been a big help.

See my creation below....

Rudd the man...

Some very good news this morning from the Rudd Government, as a result of the financial crisis they have raised the FHOG. See below:


As of yet there is very little information regarding the grant. Hopefully when more details come to light we find ourselves 14K richer....

The builders have finished the frame today (even thought it rained for most of the day in Sydney) and already the colourbond gutters have been delivered.

I purchase a Canon IXUS 85 IS yesterday, one neat function it has is a stitch function, this allows you to take panoramic photos. This is the photo i took using the new camera.

Gutters...well i think?

Garage sticks up

Today the builders have put up the garage roof - its starting to take shape. I also found an off-angled stud. Hopefully they will finished the roof this week.

House of sticks....

I came home on Thursday and was surprised that in one day the builders had transformed a slab into something that resembles a home. Whoohoo! Our house is taking shape at last. It was exciting walking through and getting a feel of how the place would look like as Allworth did not have our home on display.

I can see my cinema room..... :)

Today the builders had started the on roof, looks like they have finished half of it. It's good to see that our single story's roof is nearly as high as our neighbours double story house - so we don't feel like we are sitting too low. This is because we have a cut and fill - as you can see from the picutres of the back of the house there is a drop of 1m.

I've added a video - taken from the front of the land.

So far with part of the roof up

Our bay window to my studyDrop from the back of the house

A big pile of wood....

I went to the land today after work and found that they had delivered the house frame - thanks to daylight savings i can still take some decent photos as the sun had not gone down yet.

I noticed that the frame was half assembled and ready to be connected together. I guess this will allow them to assemble the frame quicker. I also noticed that one piece of the roof frame had broken - i will talk to my site manager about this!

On to the plumbing, part of the plumbing tube that is protruding out of slab was broken - looks like the concrete machine hit it. I spoke to my site manager and was told that it doesn't matter as the plumber will cut it off flushed with the slab when he is ready to do the plumbing.

It looks like the frame will be up soon - hopefully by the end of the week...

Drop from the back

Broken plumbing pipe

Broken part of the roof frame