I've got a handover date!

Apparently we will be in the house before or on the 18th of July! There's been a lot of activity on our site over the last week since I had a whinge to management. Not only are the eaves complete but the rough in is complete and yesterday the walls started to go up. The end feels near people! This morning the tradies are on site working hard to get the gyprock finished by today. Whoop. I've been told that the doors will be delivered this week and will possibly even be installed this week meaning the house will be at lock up stage and we will no longer be able to break and enter. Sad.

We have a walkthrough scheduled in for this week and I already know that there are several things I want to change. I say "I" because I don't think Aaron cares too much about colours. We had our consultation 2 years ago now (bless him he sat there like a stunned mullet whilst I chose colours and fixtures and he just nodded in agreement to my choices) and what I had in mind back then is not what I have in mind now, so I'm going to talk to my SS about changing the a few things. The first being the colour of the walls (because I do not remember choosing cream) yuk- so not me. I swear I chose a grey to go with the rest of the house but alas....cream. We're also going to have a chat about the possibility of getting some power points added to eliminate a million power boards, because 2 years ago there were no thoughts of lamps and appliances and iPod docks and all that jazz. Lastly we're also hoping to have down lights added. Our SS is going to hate us. 

A house with no roof....no more!

After almost 7 weeks of turmoil, unanswered phone calls, harassing emails and numerous complaints I finally got a roof on Thursday. Ohh yeah.

I must say my experience building with Trevelle so far has been touch and go. Would I build with them again? The jury is still out. I'll wait and see what the final product looks like.

I am hoping that this week the rough in and eaves are done so my building inspection can be completed. If I dare to be so ambitious hopefully the gyprocking will be completed this week too. A girl can dream can't she.......

Here are some pics of the roof as well the colour I have chosen for my front door and the two front piers.

Bricks and Pieces

This post is pretty self explanatory- the bricks are complete. Hopefully the roof goes on this week. 

Watch this space. 

                                     

Rebel with a cause

So I'm just going to say it. I broke the rules. Please don't judge me. I'm not a bad neighbour. I swear.

What did I do? Well I'll tell you. I snuck through the fence at my building site and walked through my house.......twice. 

Do I regret it? Ask me again if I get caught. 

Any who whilst I'm still out of trouble, I have to admit it was frikken awesome walking through all the parts of the house and coming to the realization that it's all mine (and ING's- but let's not talk about  that).

Seeing all the frames up has definitely made it feel real to me and I've fallen in love with my home. Just quietly I may have shed a tear or two or ten or just plain old had a meltdown but whatever it's not important. In my mind I already have the rooms furnished and the pantry stocked. 

So where to from here? Well the windows go in on Monday and the bricks start going up Tuesday. Shouldn't be too long until the gyprock goes up and then I'll be breaking the rules daily.......

Front of the house 

At the front entrance looking down the hallway

Standing in the kitchen looking into the lounge/dining 

Standing in the lounge room looking partly into the kitchen and down the hallway. The frame in the middle is the walk in pantry.

Final floor plans

So here it is- the floor plan of my humble little dwelling that I'll be moving into hopefully in the next 5 months max! 

I had a call from my site supervisor half an hour ago saying the bricks I wanted no longer exist. I'm going to Austral on my lunch break to pick out some new ones. No biggy. I'm sure I'll find some that I like. In the meantime here's my floor plans.

Framed!

I drove around the corner today expecting to see that my frames had been delivered in a nice pile on my block ready for the carpenter to start putting them up tomorrow. What I found was even better!

It's not often in the building game you get nice suprises especially ones which leave you ahead of schedule but today when I drove around that corner not only had my frames been delivered but they were at least 70% complete. By the looks of it all that needs to be done is the the garage, the front door and the roof which I'm thinking will be complete by the end of the week should the weather take pity on me.

I spoke with my site supervisor yesterday and the bricks have been ordered to arrive on site on Wednesday with the Bricklayer scheduled to start work on Thursday. It's crazy to think that within the next fortnight I might have a framed, bricked, roofed house....pinch me I must be framing. I mean dreaming. Damn auto correct 😳

My frames....

And on a completely unrelated note- me and my puppy. Just because he's so cute ❤️

My Saturday Miracle

24/01/15

Holy Moses I now believe in miracles. And I got mine today. The sky finally decided to stop raining long enough for me to acquire a slab. 

The boys were hard at work for most of the day (except at around 11.30am when I drove past and a few of the workers were bludging...must have been on their designated morning tea break)

Luckily for them they got the job done so I won't begrudge them. Quite frankly I wouldn't have cared if they took 20 breaks as long as my slab was poured and left in pristine condition which it was I must say.

The next stage of the building game will be the erection of my frames (lol erection.....so immature). They'll be delivered on Wednesday and hopefully I'll have a standing house within a fortnight. 

Naturally I witnessed my slab about half an hour ago and the novelty of it has worn off and I want my frames. 

#getbacktoworkboys #theresframestobeerected #hahaerected