I'm guttered

And the winner for next thing is... plumbing! Quickly followed by the fascia, gutters and roof battens.

Oh, and looked like the Brickie was a Janine K's, other movement at LouNa's and Tristan&Natasha's! Looking forward to the updates guys.

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The gutters and facia are up... starting to really take shape now. Really liking the colours - the mud (and the car - can I keep it?) go great with the bricks.

The blue bits are the roof battens, ready for the colorbond sheeting, which I hope will be done tomorow - our rainproof 'hat' as Debra put it.

The observant among you may have also noticed the plumbing rough-in has been done (gas and water).... I think I heard that colorbond is actually installed by plumbers (rather than tilers), if that is so; it kind of makes sense for them to be done together. So pleased with the progress so far.

All trussed up

The roof trusses are now up. Looks like some more bracing is required, and or course the battens for the colorbond need to be added, but all the trusses are there and in place.

Here's looking from our rumpus room back towards the front of the house through the family room. Starting to feel more and more like a house everyday.

And the verandah looking out the ensuite door towards the back of the block.

I'm not sure what is next.. I think the windows will arrive sometime in the next week... not sure if the roofing will turn up as well... guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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.

So where's the pictures?

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Here was our block before settlement - the orange electrical pipe is where the lamp post will spring to life.

After settlement, with the addition of fences and water taps (it's the little things).  At least we didn't have to pay half of what the real fence cost us for temporary fencing. We did however have to talk to South East Water to have the water taps moved 600mm to the left (away from the driveway), or we would have run over them at some point.

The site scape... The turning of the sod... Yay the building has begun! We like the look of the soil... Just hope they don't take too much of it away!

It's a concrete slab! The house has a good foundation, it sits nice and high on the block, so we won't feel as if our house was built into the ground (one of our personal dislikes is when you see a house that looks like an iceberg; with more underground than above).