Rome wasn't built in a day. Time for bricks.

The Bricks have begun.

 North and west faces complete.

Little deceptive but they 2.7m walls with tall windows and doors.

Ignore the colour as the entire house will be rendered/painted.

The completed roof

This week the roof was completed, time for a colour bond moment !

We also got all the plumbing roughed in, great job guys.

And for anyone building on a slope, the famous dropped edge beam. Bricks next.

The Roof continued

Even with the week of thunderstorms we got half a roof done.

From above.

Even more exciting we got the meter box.

The roof begins.

Thursday the 4th of December and the scaffold is up and guttering finished.

Fingers crossed for the roof to start tomorrow.

Still a lot of work to go before we can call that a driveway.

Frame is complete

Today the windows, sliding doors and timber door frames went in.

The great room, if you look closely you can see the coffered (raised) ceiling

Door frame and side lights.

Quick aerial shot showing the barn, tank and house.

Framing continued

The end of the week and the windows are on site.

Outdoor area is taking shape also.

Framing begins.

Tuesday the 18th of November the guys started erecting the frames.

Day 2 framing continued.

The slab.

As promised today they pored the slab.

Great effort for one day.

Slab update

Went out today to find the Slab framed up !

Finally ready to concrete ! stay tuned.

Slab continued !

Bit of a surprise when i got there today.

The slab preparation begins

Today was the first ground work for the concrete piers.

Site is looking better every time we visit.

Some of the piers were 3.6m !

Unfortunately the Piers won't be finished until tomorrow.

and lastly our house is to be called - Heartstone

Scribbly gums

Our new house is surrounded by these fascinating trees.

Cool man, or which fridge ?

The fridge cavity is 1200mm wide but only 750mm deep, water is plumbed to the space but it can't be made deeper. One choice is a pigeon pair of fridge and freezer, simple but effective. However we think we would prefer side by side or french door.

So our favourite fridge is,

Unfortunately at 924L its nearly 900mm deep and sticks out way to far.

Next choice would be,

Much smaller samsung 630L but with a display door, now the concern is price versus space. These  two fridges are by far the best looking in person, both having something special about them.

So we started to think with our head not heart.

The four finalists are;

The last is an Australian made Westinghouse, good price and as a bonus its 1000mm wide, no other fridge is over 900. This would fit perfectly, but we still haven't decided !

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Update, we settled on a Samsung 828L french door at the boxing day sales !

Site preparation.

Our site was levelled on Wednesday the 22nd of October.

 They have cleared approx 750 sq..

Then they cleared more.

Softened the edges and formed an area which will become the driveway.