What the Stork delivered...

We went to the house today not expecting anything to have been done, tho we were hoping that maybe, just maybe they had delivered our roofing tiles.....but not to be.
What we did find were the plumbers installing all our pipes etc......also the guttering and facias had been installed, they give the house a different look.....sooooo glad that they look good together.  We also found our bricks had been delivered to the house..........now, they were a suprise but a very welcome one, what wasn't welcome was the invoice for the frame which was waiting for us when we got home.  :(

Lawson brick by Austral....we were worried about the colour of this, as we both remembered it as a red based brick, but when we went to a Austral display the brick was very brown, we think now that someone had moved the brick signs around.

Front porch and garage with their pretty gutters and facias

the Alfresco

Street view of the front of the house

Easter

EASTER SATURDAY
We went up today on the off chance that something might have happened....nope...nothing. 
Never mind we used this chance to sweep the entire slab except for the garage...the whole thing was littered with dropped nails and bits of wood and sawdust.....I didn't mind the sawdust it was the nails, we all kept standing on them.  It took Kelly & I awhile to sweep up, mind you it would have been better if i'd have take the dust pan out with us, so we ended up using a paper plate and some plasterboard.
While we were doing this Tony measured all the windows, there was only one out of alignment, one of the smaller ones in our bedroom....he also picked up that some of them had puncture marks in them from where the nails had pushed through the frame.

Inspections

THURSDAY 1ST
Up early this morning to be at the house by 7.30am to meet with our SS to go through the house.
First thing he told us was that Porter Davis don't allow dogs on the site due to OH & S....weekends are fine...that was okay as we don't go on site while there are workmen there...well not yet any way.
Were there any errors...you bet, not alot tho....lets see...the french doors in the master bedroom are opening inwards instead of outwards...the bi-fold frame is wrong...we want a four door opening from right to left, the frame they gave us is for four doors, but for 3 doors going right to left while the other door is a single door going left to right....honestly how hard is it to read the requirements and make sure that the right items are delivered.
We were worried about the window in the dining room as we had requested it to be centered in the wall but it was 13cm over towards the left, he explained that if they put it dead centre it would put the bricking out of alignement...thats okay but why not tell us on the Tuesday when we had pointed it out to him.
Tony had already spoken to him to see if we could get the height of the opening into the study made taller to be in line with the garage door, this shouldn't be a problem, in fact he marked the floor with bright fluro pink paint to get it changed.
The only other thing that I could see that was wrong were the hinges on the doors.....in our colour selections we had requested that all the external doors have brass hinges and what did they give us?....you guessed it....silver! again, why dont they read the bloody forms...grrrrr.
Otherwise we were happy with what we saw - a enormous house.
We had a meeting with Alex our Inspector at 10, so we went home to drop Mia off and to have breaky...we were just getting ready to go back to the house when Alex rang, he had arrived early on the off chance that we were still there.
It took an hour plus for him to do his Inspection...there were a few things that he would liked fixed but overall he said it was a good build.
Funny thing is, even if the bi-fold frame had been correct we would have to get another one as this one has a sizable chip out of it.
We have a few high spots in the slab, one in the hallway and one in the entry to the bathroom...apparently they should be ground down before the carpet goes down.
While Alex was inspecting the house we had a delivery....our gutters and facias arrived...woo hoo....so naturally we took thousands of pics :)

Gutters and facias

close up of colours...facias are surfmist and gutters are monument

Topped!!

WEDNESDAY 31ST
We had to pick my stepfather Reg up from the airport at lunchtime today, so i had organised my mum to come out to our place  by train in the morning...she did well, she made it!!  After picking Reg up we took them up to see the house.
The framers were working on the last part of the roof - putting the eaves together...we only have eaves on the front of the house, and even more exciting was the fact that some of our windows were sitting on the ground behind the house.
As there were workmen there we only walked around the perimeter to show mum and Reg the various rooms....thankfully they approved of our house, lets face it, its one thing to see it on paper and another to see it in person....even at our age we still like to get our parents approval, so i guess somethings never change.

Roof from the kitchen

From the back corner (rumpus) looking towards the alfresco and garge

side view of the house

front view

garage and entry porch

Progress

MONDAY 29TH
It was a busy day today...Ash & I had to leave by 8am to get to Cockatoo by 9.30 to take our girls to their Breeder so they could have their hips and elbows x-rayed (something we have to have done if we ever want to breed them), we got home around 4ish...just in time for Tony to borrow Ash's car to go to work, so I could use ours to get up to the house.
As usual when ever i find that work has been done on our house I get excited....today our door frames had been delivered and they had started on the roof...it looked really weird......like a ship in full sale.
While their I received a call from our Broker who informed me that the bank had been in touch with her to inform her that we had forgotten to authorise the invoice from Porter Davis.....so off home i choofed to pick up the relevant documents and get them to Tony at work so he could fax them to the mortgage center for the bank after we had signed them.

roof, back end of house

Door frames

Trusses

FRIDAY 26TH
After a day of nothing happening on Thursday we were expecting to find our trusses there when we went out the next night, we were not disappointed.
We had wood everywhere.....bits and pieces joined up just lying around waiting to be put into place.

More Frame

THURSDAY 25TH

With baited breathe we visited our house last night, wondering what new sights we would find.
They had done some work on the frame...Yay!!
The inside of the frame was now supported, the bathroom had it frame completed for the window (for a sec i thought we were getting a full length window in there), they had put up the chipboard around the windows and had put the beams and poles up on the Alfresco.
We also had a call from our SS who tells us that our frame will be ready for inspection next Wednesday.....way to go.

Today Adrian & I went to see if more progress had done...nope, she was a sad lonely little house, we thought that the roof trusses might have been delivered, hopefully tomorrow.

The framed Alfresco (& Lulu)

Alfresco from the kitchen