Builder's Rest Day

The building work has come to a welcome halt as it's raining!

I can't complain , because up to today, progress has been really good, the ground floor framing is now complete with the flooring fixed on the 1st floor.

As soon as the weather clears I will get the big fork-lift from Mitre10 to come around and lift the 1st floor framing up, then I will be able to start on the top floor.

I should have the top floor frame up ready for the roof trusses to be fitted by the end of this week (builder promise!)

During this stop I will finalise the stair drawings, making sure they will fit the allocated space.

The making of the stairs should be an interesting project, I plan to make them in our double garage - the garage has never held a car as I took it over as my 'shed'

Raining

The construction has been moving on well, until the rain, which has brought the build to a halt. Although it's only light rain it's getting a bit unpleasant and slippery moving up and down the ladder, I'm getting risk adverse since I squashed my thumb almost flat, stupid accident just as I was thinking "that beam looks a bit unstable", it fell and... I must admit I did say "bother that hurt!" an number of times.

I have just had a email from some friends who are comming to stay, It will be great to catchup and have a few days 'leave' visiting some of the local vineyards and tasting a few wines.

Half a House

My environmentally friendly builders 4 wheel drive is always parked nearby.

This took 6 days to get to this stage, the next project is to fit the floor so we can lift the 1st floor up(that's what's in the white parcel on the right). This should be 'exciting..

Instant House Kit!

The frames were 'unpacked' and moved to their allocated position.
They are really heavy. so it was pull, push and grunt all the way.

At this stage I was feeling a bit concerned how I was going to put these up by myself but I had a plan - the plan was to buy a boat winch, which I got at the local el cheepo car accessory store.
It worked!! an electric model with a remote control that connected to the tow bar of my car.
It was like having 2 big fellows to help!

The pad

The concrete pad is completed, ready for the frames, which will be delivered tomorrow (Friday).

A surprise that I wasn't expecting, they were due later in the month, this means we are now ahead of schedule in the build!