A roof over our heads

It has been some time since we posted about progress on the house. It has been charging along, thanks to the management skills of our builder, Wayne of Waylyn Homes. He likes to keep "his boys" busy and they seem a happy well oiled team. Every day, things happen and they seem to be happening according to a well planned timeline. The only thing Wayne is not in charge of is the weather...

It's been raining quite a lot.

 Drainage needed

Every day the weather is dry enough, there is a posse of tradie's cars parked on the grass, or should I say, the mud. Various huge vehicles have made their way up our driveway, the cement trucks, the cranes, the dirt trucks and earthmoving machinery, even a semi trailer that had to back out all the way down Vincent Close because it was too big to turn around.  Each one churns up the ground a bit more, boots are now essential footwear.

Rafters and steel beams have been installed overhead

The exterior shape of the building is beginning to be visible

Window openings frame future views.  (Above) this one is from your bedroom! When you come and stay, you will wake up to a view of the dam - without that mound of dirt of course,  There will be a grassy slope for you to step out onto through your sliding door.

Plumbing pipes now thread through the framework.  And in this photo, to the wrong spot.  Plumber had a slap-the-forehead moment over that one. Wall-mounted taps...yeah, that's right. I forgot, he said. Hmm, lucky I spotted that one.  Earlier I had spotted that the bath waste was in the wrong location. Wonder what else I haven't spotted? All part of the excitement.

David takes a flying leap through the guest bathroom window. There will be glass in this in a week or less.

The house so far, viewed from the top corner of the block, looking towards the road

Our resident plovers appear to have decamped to the next door neighbour's place, but our butcher bird family is very present and bold. Are they training the builders to throw lunch scraps, I wonder?

We also have a couple of resident bunnies.  I spotted someone's tomato piece outside their burrow a while back.

With the rafters and steel beams in place, the interior space of the main living room begins to take shape

Pipework and groundwork happening all at the same time

 On Friday, a momentous day. Better get down there if you want some photos,Wayne says on the phone at 8am. I can't get Sue out of bed, David answers. Which was true.  I was ironed out from the Jamie Oliver meal with red wine from the night before. Well, I've been here since 6am and I'd rather be in bed too! says Wayne. That's a million dollar's worth of crane you're looking at, he went on. They sent the big one.

 And what did we need a million dollar's worth of crane for? The roofing sheets.

Here they are being laid on top of a thick blanket of insulation.  More insulation batts will go in later.

By 9am the big machine folded itself up, the front wheels of the huge vehicle were lowered back to the ground,

and it trundled off down the street, shaking the ground a little as it went.

Having a roof over the interior spaces makes the whole place seem more like an actual house.

The builders have moved into the garage space and set themselves up a beautiful little smoko room, complete with antique chairs and a newspaper

A sunset shot. Its been a while and you know how I love a good sunset shot.