Render and doors!

We were really pleased to see that a lot had happened on site since our last visit a week ago. We have a temporary front door (at least I hope it's temporary!); an external door from the laundry; the door from the garage into the house; a lot of wiring and metal plates ahead of sockets; and the baths have had more prep work done!

Very happy Dan and Becks...

Making better progress

Todays visit left us feeling slighly more upbeat than of recent times! We were pleased to see the brickies have almost finished and that the carpenter had been on site putting 'bits' above the windows and installing the frames for the two baths.

A new feature to The Build Build!

It's amazing what a morning off work and a spirit of 'I'm not going to do anything particularly productive today' does!

We've just signed up to an online forum where every intricate detail of house building is shared between fellow peeps and it made me realise just how unaware I really am of the time line we're following, delays to our build, and where we're up to with payments etc.

I promptly started to put together a list in MS Word and half way through the mundane task of pulling the information together thought to myself "surely there must be a more intersting way to present this information". Moments later, by the power of google I had discovered an online timeline application! And better still, it can be embedded in blogs! Perfick!

It's at the bottom of the page and I will update it as we continue on this journey of house building!

Ps. Make sure you use the zoom function as there is a fair bit of info in that timeline!

Nearly there with those bricks!

We'd had our weekly update via email which told us that the brickies would be finishing up this week, so today we tootled off down to have a look! I wouldn't say they'd finished just yet but are certainly not far off! It feels good that they are back on site (after both xmas and the heatwave) at least.

Dan also took the opportunity to dig up and spray some weeds!

The Two Extremes...

Whilst we've suffered 40c plus temperatures for the last 5 days (not dropping below 35c one night!), the UK is covered in snow!

I love the two extremes of these reports...

Arghh
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24973504-5006301,00.html

Brrr
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7865370.stm

Third and final post of the day...

I was just browsing through our old you tube videos and found this walk-through the display home of the house we are building! The display home is no longer open so I'm really pleased to have found this!

Tour Down Under pics

We've been to a couple of the Tour Down Under races over the last week and I've been busy practising my photography. I got about 6 decent shots but this one I took yesterday is my particular favourite...
















Visit my Redbubble page to view the others...

Taps and pipes

Popped to the house yesterday to check on progress (following yet another weekly update from the builder saying 'the brickies are still on site') and whilst there wasn't much progress on the wall front, there was at least a whole load of new piping, outdoor taps and shower stuff!

More bricking

On a lovely hot summers day we ventured down to the house having not been there for a couple of weeks. Our expectations were high and we were expecting to be moving in tomorrow. However, as seems to be the case at the moment we were a little bit disappointed. The bricky is still going, I reckon I could have built the house out of lego quicker. Any how, he has now finally made it all the way round and we do have bricks on the front of the house... woo hooo. Photos of the update below, not long to go.

The year that was 2008...

Crank up the sound and enjoy a 4 minute whistle stop tour of the year that was 2008, as lived by Dan and Becks...