More Bricking!!!! What the????

Jesus "H" Christ, the brickies have been there for an additional 4 more days this week.... We were actually on a roll....

Although I should have known better as yesterday, Thursday 28/08 I saw them leave about 2.30 so I should have known something was not good....

Today being an absolutely perfect day, weather wise, not a brickie to be seen.....Although we did get our insulation bats delivered, so I should be great full for small mercies... I suppose... No tradies what so ever on site today........ Here we go again....

(Edit) Pics as promised... this is what the brickies can achieve if they stay onsite and work......

The front all bricked in now, even the lintel for the garage finally made it in before it got knocked off again... It appears theft in the building game is rife... We have had 2 garage lintels and 3 window lintels go missing since the brickies started.. Mind you if they were onsite more often working, it would stand to reason that things would get knocked off less...

Blind sideway 2/3rds bricked in now......

look out we have even made inroads on the rear walls... See I knew they had it in them... All they had to do was stay onsite......

We have even started in and around under the alfresco.. The two wooded colims should be done some time next week...... That is if they don't go and wander again........

Now you can see some of the brick work under the supported frame work. All this will still get plastered over, which is a good thing.... I think.....

Tuesday 26/08, the plumber came back, to move the recycled water tap off the back wall of the rumpus to the now side wall, It cost us an additional $180 dollars, from memory, to have it put in and because the misses now wants my shed to go on the back wall, (hi Ness xoxoxox) it now cost us $480 to move it no more than 2 metres.... Don't you just hate that...... 100% our stuff up though.

Wednesday 27/08 our solar hot water panels were fitted, of which I will be posting some more pics very shortly.... (edit) as promised some pics.....

Our solar hot water panel....

I wonder what next week will bring.... Hopefully the bloody brickies will be back..... We will see!!!

Weekly update.....

Well it is Friday 22nd August and the brickies have now been on site for three consecutive days. This is by far their biggest achievement, the most days in a row on our site at any given time. Woo Hooo... They have achieved some good work so far. I hope they keep it up......

Yesterday we had the chippies back in to prop up the garage, photos to follow soon I hope. This was required because we need to place six or so courses of bricks under the garage wall frame, to lift it off the ground and stop it from getting wet and rot.

I will also post some pics of the brickie progress.....

Edit... As promised here are some pics from the 22/08....

The front 2/3rds done...

The side 1/3rd done.....

The garage being prope up, as you can see the timber frame has been cut to allow the brcik courses to be built under the frame work...side wall......

This is the rear wall of the garage with the frame work cut down, ready for bricking the six or so courses.....

Sing our praises.....

Praise where praise is due...... that was back on the 11/08........

It is now the 20/08..................... And I have nothing further to show you at all.... nadda, zip, "0", zilch, Sweet "F A", bugger all....... anything else I may have left out I apologise for.......

OK, so it has been raining...... last time I checked the bloody house has a roof on it......... Surely some chippies could have come in to the garage and put up the support bracing for the garage in readiness for the, eventual, return of the brickies..... Nut!!!!!!

Speaking of chippies, they could have also been in to move the window, that is to be moved, again in anticipation of the eventual return of the brickies.

The plumber could have been in to simply do the 10 second fix for the plumbing that is touching the bracing. "When the metal pipes and the metal bracing touches it causes a reaction of the two metals and consequently the weaker, generally the copper pipe, will corrode."

Anyway, since the 11/08 myself and a mate have pre-wired the data cables and aerial coax for the points required, which has been good to do.

Well the brickies arrived yesterday at approx 1.00pm, so I went back at 2.35pm, to see what was happening if anything. Well they were in the middle of packing up for the day.... Bugger me what a fantastic job they have..... All I noticed was the shuffle around of some bricks added to the piles already there around the house.....

Hope something happens today and a lot of it as tomorrow is shitty weather again...........

and then we won't see the bloody brickies again for another two weeks....

Fantastic Job....So far.....

Well yesterday we had our, totally independent, pre-plaster inspection carried out, for which I wanted to be there, to not only see what was checked, but also how and why with what issues if any would cause to be a potential problem.

I would have to say, that after reading so many building horror stories from the homeone.com.au forum, I am a member of, I felt very unsure of what was or could unfold during the inspection. Not that my builder is doing anything wrong, just that I have no idea what I should or could be looking for, as this is the first house I/We have had built. I have always bought established and therefore bough someone elses problems along the way.

To say that I was very relieved, ecstatic, happy and most impressed with the result of the inspection would be to understate the value of not only having the inspection but also the choice of builder we signed with. Out of everything that was inspected and there was a great deal of inspecting and cross referencing, back to the plans and layout, done there was all of two issues noted.

One is approximately, a 2 minute job for the plumbers to fix and the other we will need to speak to the brickies about, regarding a rectification, and as they have only done this much so far, I don't believe it will be an issue either.

Needless to say I am as happy as a proverbial pig in you know what........

On another note , while up there having the inspection done I noticed a few things myself, we now have the dodgy, temp - lock up, door fitted, we also have a bath tub and two shower bases installed and fitted.... Yippeee....

The Estate....

Just some photos I took this morning on my up to the block, to see how the tiling was progressing, of the local area as it was extremely foggy this morning.

Looking towards the estate, you can't even see any of the building going on, let alone the new stage 5 area being developed.


Stage 8 Sales sign for Marriott Waters.

One of the last farming shacks in the area.....

Anyone want to get laid?????

Tilers going hamer and tong today, all is good. So far.

The colour is Homestead Traditional.

The batch as you can see is from 23/05/08 yet it took nearly

2 months to get to our work site?

Other than the boys having a bit of play fight on the roof does anyone else see anything strange about this photo???

Here is a wider angle shot of the all the tiling nearly completed.

More tiling....

And we also had a visit from the electrical fairy, during the tiling phase.

Woo hooooo ... We are slowly getting there......