Great start to the week!

My daughter drove me to the house this afternoon, she is on her "L's" and she didn't get to come on the weekend.

We were surprised with workmen still working at 4pm!  They were putting up the eaves and we got the wooden poles out the front and for the side facade (wooden poles is the technical term).  The plumbers were there as well and had just finished off putting up the gas boosted solar panels, they are huge, most houses have 2 but we have 3 as they aren't in the ideal spot, we are going to surround them with solar panels for electricity then the roof will look awesome, well to us it will.  

And the bricks are finished yayyyyyy, all they need to do is clean them now.  So for a Monday I think we have done very well. Good on you SS, keep up the good work, we are very happy - so far! We will go on Saturday on our way to Berry, we are going to look at a dining table which could turn into a very or berry expensive day :). 

Corner facade - looking good although I wish the little slab was a bit bigger 

The front pole 

Gas boosted solar panels- not the best shot 

Looking good

The bricks are just about done, all there is to do are the row of bricks under the windows and the stacker doors.  They have cleaned up the site as well, there was a huge mess but now it looks nice and neat.   The rain has put us a couple of days behind I think, the gas boosted solar panels were supposed to be done and the eaves but hopefully that will be next week now.  I have been going to look once during the week and then we all go and look on a Saturday.  I was going every day but was getting disappointed if something wasn't done.  It's much better this way. So Friday was Day 40 , still a while to go yet! 

Here are some pics

Back of house

Front

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Thanks MJH

Today we had some good news from our SS, after some discussions with the Construction Manager they have decided the workshop wall shouldn't of been designed as a double brick wall and are going to gyprock it and put architraves around the window and make it all pretty. I can't tell you what a relief this is and I was very grateful for the feedback from our SS today, now we can all have a good weekend and not have to worry.

AND I don't want to have to talk about the "workshop" aka "Brewery" again!!!!!!!!!!!  Even the security man who is putting in our alarm system started off our meeting yesterday saying you must have a sensor in the workshop cause it will have important boy stuff in there, I could of punched him in the head ha ha.  Men don't seem to see the big house attached to the bloody workshop :) 

So now we have no worries as the bricks are half done as of Thursday and it all seems to be going well.  The gas boosted solar panels go up next week and the bricks should be finished and they are hoping the eaves will be put up, fingers crossed x

Go NSW!!!!!

It makes you wonder..........

I thought I would just put a few things on here that have happened so far that are really confusing us.

First thing is "The Workshop". Now this room is attached to the double garage and cost approx $7500 this paid for the extension of the front and back wall by 3m, 2 windows, 1 door and 3m of extra roof, so everything looks fine until they put up the frame and there is no frame for the front of the workshop.  we are informed its going to be a double brick wall so from inside there will be brick with the windows sitting in them, mmmm weird. When we looked closely to our plans, and they have to be printed in colour mind you, the outer colour of the house is dark blue, the inner line (gyprock) is light blue, on our plan that little line depicting 3m of garage inside is dark blue and guess what we never noticed, and why the hell would they draw it like that? The impressions package states the garage will be fully lined so why would we want one wall with bricks?  We spoke to our CLO who said they will glue gyprock on for $250 but we aren't going ahed with that as we are not paying out anymore money. 

Next issue is our new SS who is very helpful but is confusing us no end. He has told us that wall will not be weather proof, what the?  I don't see how as its a brick wall, actually 2 brick walls thick, next he said we shouldn't have the timber surrounds on the windows and he will put some bracket in if we want, we opted to keep the surrounds and then he said the windows will twist!  We are so confused, isn't that why we have paid lots of $$$$$$$ for MJH to build us a home that doesn't leak and windows don't twist?  And all this is in the workshop, there has been no mention of the remainder of the house, if double brick wall leaks so wouldn't a brick wall and gyprock?  OMG confusion all round. 

One more thing our brick layer doesn't like getting his boots dirty, he didn't work yesterday cause of a bit of mud, wow I didn't think that would matter to a person who works outdoors for a living!  

Yep I'm on a roll, watch out!!!!  But I will be over it by the next time I go out to the house and see it cause I really can't wait to move in. So Mr Bricklayer harden up and get the job done!!!! 

More photos of our roof!!!

We were there about 11.30am and it was very overcast. I'm wondering when the sun will go through the back doors

This was taken from further along the street, the roof looked a totally different colour today, it looked a lot lighter.