Lights.... Camera .... Action...

Ok so maybe it's not a feature film production (despite feeling like one) but our house is finally under construction! I've taken some pictures of the 'action' to date - they delivered the bricks on monday (all 13 odd palates of them) as well as some of the plumbing supplies. Then on tuesday they dug the trenches and laid the plumbing! Unfortunately, the SS advised us that they hit rock so there goes our $3000 provisional sum in our contract for rock excavation!

The slab is being boxed today and then the concrete trucks are scheduled to arrive tomorrow to start pouring our slab!! We have to spend the long weekend building three retaining walls - we are short on willing bodies to help this time round so it looks like even I'm going to be helping! (hmmm I wonder if they make high heels for retaining wall building ;) ) We also discovered that the Polytank is going to cut off our side access - we enquired about changing to a Slimline but it was going to cost us over $2500 to do this as the plans needed redrafting, resubmitting to council etc etc... Oh well, I guess we just need to go on diets so we can fit round the water tank!





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Finally....

They started on our block! After not visiting since Friday Chris went up yesterday and they had started the site cut! It looks like it still needs to be compacted but it certainly looks very different! We will also need to build three retaining walls this weekend - by we I mean Chris :)

It's much higher than we anticipated so we've decided to retain the back and put some steps in the middle to take you down to the back yard. Chris took a ground level photo and you can see it's nearly as high as the 2.3m acoustic fence!

We rang Adam yesterday to find out when we can come in and start the retaining but he didn't call us back. Hopefully he will call us today as we also want to say thanks for starting!!!

Here's some pictures:

This is from the rear right corner:

From the rear centre:

Ground level (you should be able to see the top of the fence in the distance):

Front left hand corner (we need to put retaining walls in there):

Standing at the top of the block (in the centre) looking over to where the garage will be ( you can see the cut for the garage if you're looking closely):

From the driveway looking down the block:

Rain rain go away...

well things are moving along... slowly! Plantation are ready to go but mother nature hates us! Our Site Supervisor's name is Adam - he picked our file up last wednesday and has been trying to get the site scrape done but it hasn't stopped raining! The frame has been ordered and is scheduled to arrive on the 15.4.09 - I'm thinking this may need to be delayed otherwise the frame will sit on site for weeks!

Once the site scrape has taken place we need to go up and put in three retaining walls. We were hoping to do this on the easter long weekend but like most things building related - nothing ever seems to go your way!

At least the block is clear now - Chris, Gary, Jon and Steve removed about 14 tonnes of dirt and building rubble off our block! Kindly left by the builders who built the new houses around us!

Here's some pictures of how it looks now - they aren't the best quality as they were taken on a mobile but you get an idea:

The bank brings good news...

...for a change! We received confirmation yesterday that our loan to build had been approved by the CBA - yippeee!! So all going to plan we should see some action on our site the week starting the 30 March 09.