Week Six: Roof Trusses and Bricks Arrive

We had a quiet week, where nothing much at all happened (apart from the security fence falling down for the gazillionth time).  Interestingly, I did a drive-by on Friday and noticed that the bricks had been delivered, as well as a cement mixer. We also had a new power-box installed.

Drove by today and the place was a hive of activity. Roof trusses were well underway, brickies had arrived to move the bricks into piles around the house and the plumbers were there installing the roof plumbing connections and gas pipes.

Brickies will be starting on Monday and we've also been told that the colorbond roof wont be too long after. Steaming towards lock-up stage!

Here are some images from our Saturday afternoon visit. Our youngest shat his pants soon after arriving so we couldn't stay long ;-)

 

 

Week Five: Frames

Nothing much to report during week four, since it was spent waiting for the slab to dry. Didn't really warrant a blog post, so I skipped straight to week five.

Our frames were delivered yesterday (Thursday) and tradies arrived today (Friday). Half of the walls were done by the end of the day. Our site supervisor said that there was a strong possibility that they would come on site tomorrow to continue, as the framers have a lot of work lined up and are hoping to push ahead with their jobs. No complaints from us!

Work is anticipated to finish next Tuesday or Wednesday, and our super supervisor has done his best to ensure a smooth transition into brick-laying. Crossing our fingers!

Construction has certainly been very smooth.

Here are the pics...

Week Three: Concrete Slab Completed

Busy week! We had tradies onsite Monday and Tuesday preparing the slab. Tuesday afternoon also brought out the termite dude, he mentioned something about laying the termite columns or something. Sounded intriguing, but I didn't ask for further clarification.

No one on site Wednesday, but from today (Thursday), cement trucks arrived at 7am and the slab was poured and finished by around 1pm. Job well done!

We've already received notification about the next progress payment invoice is coming our way. We finally spoke to the site supervisor for the first time this week and we've been told that frames have been ordered. We're looking at 1 week for the slab to dry, then 2 weeks for the frames to start going up.

I wish that I'd asked about our estimated PCI date, but didn't want to peeve him off further. He's already cranky with us regarding a misunderstanding regarding our neighbours fence. I wont bore you with the details, but suffice to say he was only passed our file 3 days prior to the phone call. So, two site supervisors in two weeks. Hoping that's not an ongoing trend.

Here are some progress pictures that have been taken throughout the week.  It was wet and overcast, but luck seemed to be on our side.

Authors note: I conveniently live 5 minutes from the block and have to pass my street to get to our current lodgings. Still, can't help feeling like a stalker ;-)

Tuesday 5th July

Thursday 7th July

Week Two: Concrete Piering and Slab Prep

And we're rocketing along. Popped down this morning to check on the progress, and we're a little excited about this development. Nothing had initially happened since last week's update, so was very happy to spot the trucks and machinery this morning.

We also received our email this week that confirmed we'd officially moved into construction.

Here are this week's pictures.

Week One: Site Scraped and Leveled

WEEK ONE

Okay, we're officially into week one of construction. I'll attempt to do a weekly progress update from here. Email received this week from Wisdom confirming that we've officially moved into construction.

Hubby headed off to work on Tuesday morning and noticed a Wisdom ute turning into our estate. Thought it was interesting.

I did a drive-by the same afternoon to find that the site had been scraped and leveled, ready for plumbing and slab. Nice!

We haven't heard from our site supervisor yet, I'm guessing we'll hear in the next week or two. I'm told to expect an expected move-in date around now, so looking forward to hearing that (as well as the inevitable future forehead slaps due to more 'delays').

Oh well... gotta have hope!

Some photos:

All Wrapped Up

Variations are paid, sign is up and we have excavation starting next week. Happy days! Heres some pics of our sign, our final plans and final documents.

 

Pretty sign...

  

Final Floorplan

 

Facade

Facade 

 

Roof Pitch

 Colour Selections Exterior

 External Paint Colours

 Door Colours

 Internal Colours

Insert Excited Expletive Here!

An absolute explosion of activity this week. Very happy to see that Wisdom responded to my concerns and went above and beyond to get the ball rolling. Again, special thanks to our Wisdom CSR super-star LS, who will be getting a mighty-big bunch of flowers at the end of this. Incredibly organised and brilliant at what she does. Great communication.

 So, the week that was...

• Sunday: sent an email requesting some clarification of what we can expect time-wise. As promised, I put on my cranky-pants.

• Monday: email returned, passed onto relevant department. Solution is reached, whereby we'll pay for the sewer encasement part of our final variation BEFORE the End Panel has been received, to ensure that work is finished and ready for builders.

• Tuesday: Fences arrive.

• Wednesday: Cheque drawn, dropped off to Wisdom on Wednesday Afternoon.

• Thursday: Plumbers arrive, sewer encasement begins.

• Friday: Sewer encasement continues, portaloo arrives. End panel and final documentation arrives via email.

I've never been so relieved to see a big pile of dirt!

Here are some pictures of the progress this week.