What lies beneath

What lies beneath the finished skin of your house? And is it best not to know? Under that smooth, unblemished skin of painted gyprock in your lounge room, are there hidden botch ups, nasty short cuts, snarls of wires, messy ganglions of pipes and slashed, gashed chunks of wooden framework? The bones of our house are still exposed, with the internal structures and joints and conduits being installed. But unlike the miracle of the formation of a living being, where things grow through other things in a harmonic, organic way, in a house the frames and layers are built up and then things are later hammered on or punched through the existing structures. When we wander through our embryonic house, we hope and trust that we are looking at best practice modern building techniques. It doesn't look pretty. But pretty is only skin deep. Lets be confident the bone structure is good. I keep saying to myself, "It will all be all right in the end. And if it is not all right, then it is not yet the end" That's a quote from the delightful film "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" by the way.

Here's some pictures of what lies beneath.

(Above) So this is how they join frames together

Is this roofing insulation coming away?

Is that daylight around the doorframe OK?

This is how tap outlets get positioned in the exact right spot. The spot is created.

 This is how water pipes end up going to different locations

 Mysterious pipe

Mysterious pipe pierces through roof and roof insulation

 Water pipes drilled through the rafters on their way to the kitchen

Basin outlet has a fight with the frame positioned over the top of it

 Will we see this bit of the slab later? And the black plastic?

This is how the rock walls get started

I reckon it will be all right in the end. It looks pretty good now.  Do you see those corners and edges - not artificially shaped at all - Cliff goes to the quarry and chooses just the right "corner rocks" from "Cliff's Mountain", a huge pile set aside, just for him. Over thirty year's experience in these walls.