Building A Home

The view from the driveway, as I walked in. There were a couple of items to discuss with Chris, mostly revolving around doors, and some of the complex decisions involving the fascia around this end of the house. Fortunately, an experienced builder can solve these problems which I would not have even knew would be a problem.

The front of the house from the north west corner of the block. The roof structure over the kitchen/dining/family room and porch is now complete - at least the major parts! Still needed is some additional bracing between the long beams, which Ryan and Garry were working on. In fact you can just see Garry in the shadows to the left of the central pillar.

And the brickies have almost finished the brick wall on the far right. There's more work to do on the upper (much upper) walls in the western courtyard, but that cannot happen until some more windows are delivered - specifically the non-rectangular shaped ones to go above the doors and windows currently in this area. The additional windows go most of the way to the roof.

The view from just outside the kitchen doors in the hallway leading to the bedrooms and the front door. Most of the temporary bracing to support the walls has now been removed, as the roof structure itself is now doing its job. Ryan (in the shadows on the lower left) was removing the bracing as I was setting up this shot, and in the photo is removing a nail from one of the (former) braces.

The western wing ( not The West Wing ) as seen from the lounge room. The brick layers will be able to build this wall fairly quickly, as it is a straight run - in fact the longest straight run on the house! This is about the only major brick work left. As the front door goes in the hole at the left and the door dimensions need to be determined before the brick layers reach it, the door type and size needed to be determined quickly.

The view from the garage looking towards the west wing, showing that long brick wall again, and the extent of the completed roof structure. Apart from some additional bracing, battens need to be added (you can see them on the left end) to which the roof is attached.

Yet More Roof And Bricks