Frame complete

28th April 2012

We dropped by on Saturday afternoon to a pleasant surprise that they has started the framing. Our nice neighbour said that they started around 7am this morning and finished around 3pm, playing their "very choice of music". We didn't expect to be any activity today but we thought we should just drop in and check how the soil removal went. It was nice to see so many frames up and so quickly.

The sitting room frames seem to be complete and the they had already started on the joists

1st May 2012

With the great weather, there was no interruption to the frame install, the guys were already starting on the first floor. With no electricity on site they had to use their own compressor running off the car.

2nd May 2012
Got a call from our SS to say that:

• the frames would be completed this week 
• windows would be delivered and installed either tomorrow or Friday
• they would start installing the Hebel panels on Monday
• we should expect another big invoice for Stage 3 payment very soon :(

All great news to me and it's happening at a nice pace, weather forecast is also looking pretty good, just a few possible showers here and there.

3rd May 2012

Dropped in this morning to find no one onsite and all the framing complete, all the excess waste placed in a nice neat pile. We noticed the pile was very small, probably due to the fact the frames were pre-built reducing waste. The trusses are now installed which gives us a better perspective how large the building is going to be. Very happy with the pace and really looking forward to the hebel panel installation. I've been told this should take approximately two weeks to install (excluding rendering and painting), compared to bricks which takes 8 weeks.

Main bedroom

  A broken drain pipe