Week 7 and 8 - The Start of the Frame

It's been a really productive fortnight onsite. Now that the steelwork is up it enabled the team to start on the frame. A run of pretty decent, albeit hot weather has enabled work to move along at a steady pace. During week seven the downstairs frame and first floor went up and during week eight the upstairs frame and roof joists were started. It's really cool as you can get much more of a perspective of the build now. 

The single most exciting thing to happen this fortnight was the brick wall went up. I'll save a separate blog to go into intricate detail on this topic.

The 'district vistas' from upstairs

Future ensuite window

Sunset over the flour mills from our bedroom window.

Week 6 - Metal Work

We've finally risen out of the ground. While the weather was pretty crap last week the builders managed to get the metal frame up. The exposed steel beam is there in all its glory. This week they'll be focussing on getting the timber up. Finger's crossed the weather improves as it's been a shocking couple of weeks. 

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Day 28 - The first of the steel

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Week 4 and 5 Reno - The Slab

I've been a bit distracted with a few other things of late so haven't had much of a chance to put up a blog on the house. We've had great progress over the last fortnight with the slab going down and all the dirt getting removed. It was a pretty bad run with weather so the site has turned into a massive mud pit. It's all the more exciting as this week the steel comes so it means the project is really going to be getting off the ground. 

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Slab going down

It's the biggest mixer ever

I couldn't help myself