Now we have cladding and drain pipes...

Well we now have cladding on the top half of the house, guttering and downpipes!! The scaffolding will soon be lowered once the cladding has been painted, then the rest of the roof can go on. They then bag and paint the brickwork and the scaffolding will disappear....yeah!!!

View of balcony off the study...
Front of the house, during early evening...

Inside the upstairs living area....can't see out side anymore!!

Side of house....check out the electrical box on the outside of the garage wall...

We had a good chat to the driveway contractor on Monday too, they are anticipating to get the driveway done around September, along with the paving around the utility area and the pool. We still have to choose the paving for the pool area!!

Until the next update...

Yeah we have a roof!!!!

We visited our site on Saturday to find two roofers beavering away, putting on the roof tiles. It was such an amazing sight!!!! The roofers have done approximately 70 percent so far. They experienced some delays during the week because of rain, hence they were there on Saturday morning finishing off the pointing.

Inside the roof space of the balcony off the study....

Inside the roof space above the landing and bedrooms...

The roof line of the balcony off the front bedroom...

We shouted the two roofers a couple of slabs of beer.!

The next phases are:

1. Lower the scaffolding

2. Carpentry under the eaves

3. Place the cladding on the upper level

4. Paint the upper area

5. Lower the scaffolding again

6. Roofers return to do the lower level

7. Finish the eaves on the lower level

8. Complete the downstairs painting

Until the next update...

We now have scaffolding!

We enjoyed another day trip up to the Hunter to check out progress of our house build. It was a beautiful warm sunny day, 18 degrees, its hard to believe we are in the middle of winter! On arrival we found that the scaffolding had been erected and pretty much most of the bricks had been laid.

until the next update...oh the anticipation, the suspense!!