Has anyone seen a bricky?

Bricks arrived 2 weeks ago but there has been no sign of a bricky, the final framing issues have all been sorted out so we should be seeing some brick laying action.  Sounds like we are a lower priority to a couple of new display houses, next Monday is the day apparently.  Lets see if it happens.   To Ashford's credit they haven't just waited around,  the heating system ducts have been installed and the sparky has done a heap of the power, lighting and data cabling.  Damien tells me the internals and brickwork are all going to happen in parallel to catch up on some lost time.  May is getting close!

 Cut back the overhanging slab

Support the overhanging frame

Replaced base plate

Ducts

Theres going to be a lot of switches here

Power and data cabling

Temp front door

The roof is on...

I can't believe how fast they can get things done.  With the public holiday and an RDO on Friday they've only had three days this week in which the roof tiles have been laid and the windows and sliding doors are fitted as well as the door jams for the front and garage.   Some of the issues discovered last Friday have been fixed, the over hangs in the slab and entrance framing issue haven't been corrected yet.  Bit of a worry that the tiles are on but the framing requires some additional work.  Will be interesting to see how this will get sorted out.

Slab fix up

Extra nogen

                                             Cracked glass already

Extra stud added

Very glassy lounge\dinning room

Retreat doors

Entrance with door jam

Roof tiles, all done.

Frames Inspection

New Home Inspections came out today to check on the frames, was mostly ok with just a couple of fix ups to do, things I'd never have known to look for so it was well worth it.  There were a couple of places where the reo in the slab was exposed they just need to treat and cover it up, and some issues with the frames where some additional timber is required.

                                           Exposed reo

                                                     Need an extra stud here.

All of the behind plaster plumbing is completed and most of the insulation wrapping is done.  The tiles and windows should be done next week and the bricks the following.  The target of mid May is still looking achievable.

Frames

So...been a bit slack with the updates.  Went and had a look on Christmas day and got a good pressie with all of the framing work completed.  Had a bit of a wander around and all looks good.  The windows should be going in the first week back on the 9th.   Only problem has been that New Home Inspections have been on holidays and aren't back until the 16th, its a catch 22 as I want them to have a look before it gets too progressed but I also want them to keep making progress.  Anyway hopefully they can have a look next week and everything will be good.....

Started!

Finally Ashford have started.  Got a call from Damian to say they would go to site, within a week all the plumbing was in the ground.  The next week we have a slab, and they tell me frames are going up this week.  So fairly rapid progress so far.  Lets hope this keeps up after the Christmas break.

Waiting and more waiting

Contract is signed, house is demolished now waiting on Ashford to get started.  We have our tile appointment this week and then a whole full week more before colour selection, only then can they start building.  I'm still hoping to see them get to site on the 1st of September, its unlikely but we'll see.  They are apparently working on the building permits so I hope that is progressing.   It all seems crazy that we have to have the colour of tiles and paint selected before they start pouring the slab!

Here's some photos of levelled site :

Old House Gone

Its been exciting times this week with the announcement that the old house is officially gone.  We saw it on Tuesday morning and it looked roughly like this :

I managed to get back out on Wednesday evening to see how it all went :

Unfortunately I was beaten by the sun.   I'll go out tomorrow and have a proper look around but by all accounts (and my dark viewing) Hughes have done a great job.  Sending the invoice before they had finished seemed a bit cheeky but it seems like the way in the building industry.  Thanks to Darren for his excellent work on the site.

Debbie and I picked out the "granite" (I would suggest its really a biotite schist) slab for our kitchen benches at TTI's warehouse.  They have stickered two slabs to cut the tops from, and we'll be able to go out and make sure they cut the pieces the way we want once the templates are complete.

Most of our colour selections are done, just waiting on Cathrin to call us to arrange a meeting time.   We should have an updated set of drawings early next week. Hopefully not too many rounds of corrections on these and Ashford can get cracking on the building permit.  I'm still hopeful of them getting to site by the 1st of September.