We were framed!

At the moment, the house is moving along faster than my blog! The frame is up, all ready for the roof trusses, which should happen soon. Here's the progress in pictures.

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27^th of June: The site scrape turned into formwork! I imagine some concrete will be sloshing around in there soon. Exciting.

28^th of June: Turned up to see some guys standing through the main bedroom floor... ok they were waiting for the next concrete truck after having already poured 60m³ of the stuff.

15^th of July: This is our dreadlocked brickie - really nice guy - seems to do excellent work. On this day he had a dreadlocked friend working with him - I think the common hairstyle must be something to do with cement dust flying around.

Don't you just love watching other people at work? Pity I didn't have a cup of tea to watch over, but you can't have everything. Our house is taking shape... by the end of the day (Friday) the framing for the back half of the house was complete.

We noticed that our bin was looking a little precarious - perched as it was on the side of a mound of dirt... I can now report that the dirt has been removed (or painted pink with an S.E.P. field generator).

19^th of July: The framing is now complete; apart from the bits that go on the brick wall of the garage. (The police say the case is water-tight) The brickie is here waiting for the steel lintel to be put on the pillars he finished yesterday for over the garage door.

Here is the still-wet (un-cleaned?) brick wall of the garage... for those who want to know, they are Austral Lonsdale with off-white mortar. Funny though, at the colour consult they said they only ever used white sand... but it looks yellow to me... no problem it's what I preferred anyway - it will blend in much better with the bricks.

20^th of July: Sorry for all the night shots... It's sometimes hard to get here during the day... not much has happened except the garage lintel is now in place, bricked in; and the ground floor framework looks to be complete.