Overnight the fairies arrived

As l mentioned in the last blog, word was that things were happening at a fast pace and that we needed to get to our block and check out what was going on. This is what we saw when we got out the car.... and we both said Wow!. We got to the block at 9.40am and the 2 tradies were working hard and as you can tell by the photo a 3rd of the house frame was standing. The slab was all laid in quick time and I didn't even get a daylight photo of the slab alone, I do have some night shots on my phone but they are really dark. It's all happening and we can't wait to see the progression.

While we were there you can see the difference between this photo and the next, a lot more frame work has been nailed together, We went for a walk along the path towards the other end of the street (5 minute walk) and then came back and took this photo, it wasn't until after that we noticed how quick they were making the frame and what they had done. They must have felt Mel's looks at them and they got cracking (which look was that Pat? - l know how to edit this blog Ha!)

Standing at the front of the house you can see the workers have been busy building our house frame, there are 2 workers building with 1 nailing and the other is cutting and sorting the studs getting them ready for his mate. The slab of concrete at the front is our Portico (Veranda) with the front door in the middle.

A scenic look at our house from the Golf course side, the rooms completed so far are 3 bedrooms, laundry, toilet and the bathroom.

A view from the back corner of the block, the slab on the left is the garage and the first room off there is Rylie's room, we are getting extra insulation between the garage and Rylie's room to stop extra noise from the car in the morning

Surprise - Surprise - Surprise

No Photo's today but we will have photo's on Thursday after we visit the block. I have been doing some drop in visits to see what has been happening, on Friday last week I dropped in and saw Jarrod our site supervisor and we went through what was going to be happening next. The gravel was down for our slab base (most slabs are a base of foam with concrete over the top, called a waffle slab) our is slightly different with concrete supports underneath the edges of the slabs as shown in previous photo's. Jarrod told me that the slab would be down by Tuesday (remember this is Friday and there was nobody working on site). Dropped in Saturday Afternoon and no changes, dropped in Monday night around 6.30pm (dark) and found that all the form work was done and to find out today that the slab is down and that the frame work has been dropped onto the block - WOW. More photo's Thursday.

Day 11 - No Slab

I went to the block today with the expectations that the Slab would have commenced with the nice weather we are having, but no. A good thing though was our sign was up at the front of our block. If you look closely at the sign it reads owner P.Maple only (poor Mel I can evict her anytime I want). I measured the distance between the metre box and the fence and the gap is 4 metre's.

As part of the recomendations from the soil report the builders had to put some concrete footings spaced 2 metre's apart because of the Tree's on the Golf course side. These have been completed as you can see in the photo they are the disk type things of concrete in a row next to the pipes.

Day 7 - After work inspection

After I spoke with Jarrod (our Metricon site supervisor, his official title) I had to go and see what had happened during the day, so we were going to meet after work, As you can see our Meter box is on site in position on the left hand side of the house, It dosen't look like much room down that side of the house but it is around 3.5-4.0 metres to the fence and then opens up to a huge backyard area straight off the back of the house. The framed house behind is also a Metricon house being built and they are cracking on that build, you can see in the photo pipes coming out of the ground with orange paint on them, that is where the boundary of our water pipes run for storm and sewer. The toilet was also delivered and Mel and I are putting on bets when we take the boys to the block who says that they need to go to the Toilet First, It is a lose lose bet because we both say it will be Bayley! do you agree?

Day 7 - Plumbing in.

You may be thinking 2 taps? why? purple? Well the answer is recycled water! we have access to recycled water from Melton for our garden and lawns, the purple tap is the one to use when doing the Gardens. Like all things you would like these things off to the side however they were put right in the middle. All our underground work was completed on Friday and Jarrod told that the slab would be going down next week and that the framer was booked for the following week.

Day 6 - Resisted the Temptation

The week has passed and there has been some sunny days at the start of the week but today and Tomorrow they have fore casted rain. I have resisted the temptation this week to go and inspect any works done. Jarrod our builder told us last week that we were only getting our temp fences, portable toilet and maybe the plumbers might get in to do some pipe work. Mel is heading down there Friday to check out what is going on as well as taking Sandi down to show her where the block is and what is around Eynesbury.

Day 1 - Site Scrape (more photo's)

A veiw of the level land looking across to the golf course, our temporary front fence will arrive next week.

here is a photo of the digger levelling the block, as you can see some blue lines at the start of the block where they measure the fall and rise of the land to get it level.