marching on

Our house is progressing at quite a pace now which is quite nice after the initial setbacks . All the Foundation walls are now in place and (in my very limited building knowledge) I think the next step is compacting the sand that they dug out back in and casting the floor slab.

 

It currently looks like this

 

 

To make it easier to understand the layout I've labelled it

 

 

exciting times :)

Wish we could just Snap our fingers and jump to the fun part, but I'm satisfied with the pace things are moving. We probably aren't going to meet our (hoped for) deadline of December to move in but things are progressing and it's exciting to see ! I've always been a fan of things where you can see your progress (hence I tend to do only small 'instant gratification crafts) , and every time I get home from work somethings changed back there:)

 

also welcome to all my new followers :) thanks for joining us on this adventure

 

Concrete never looked so good!

I'm sure you remember the tree stump I've been cursing discussing over my last few posts

Well the darn thing eventually played along and moved! Here's a picture of it buried under the rest of the sand from the foundation.

 

 

Its sitting at the moment where our garage should be but because it was so big and heavy they just moved it out of the way to carry on with the foundations and once all the dirt's been put back where it needs to go the hope is to just drag it out and send it on it's merry way :)

 

The progress at the moment looks like this (as of yesterday)

 

 

The foundation inspection was done on Tuesday afternoon and they started pouring the concrete on Wednesday. They left it to cure for yesterday and laid out some bricks to mark where the walls will be.

 

 

They also moved piles of bricks closer to where they will be needed to be in order to build.

 

 

We're super excited and hoping that the walls go up quickly! they're going to start on the boundary wall first so our neighbour has her privacy back and go from there :)

 

       

chaos reigns supreme

No pictures today, just a quick update to show I'm still alive... remember in my last post how i mentioned we were trying to get rid of a tree stump to pour the foundation and were hoping it would get done before the weekend?

Well in true building fashion, that didn't happen!! They eventually managed to get the Monster out yesterday (about 4 days after they thought they would be able to) so now the foundation digging continues with a hope for inspection today and a foundation pour tomorrow....

 

I wouldn't hold you breath but please keep all fingers/toes crossed that this will happen and we'll be back on track :)

 

Strong foundation

So far so good on the daily Photo of house building that I mentioned I'd be doing in my previous post. I even got a tip on how to combine them into a movie (thanks Jacky) :).

 

Our builders are plugging along with digging the foundation. They are having trouble removing the last bits of the two trees that used to be in the yard and seem to have a root system as deep as they were tall! I'm looking forward to seeing if they managed it today!

 

We've progressed from nothing...

 

 

to foundations marked out in the sand for the outside...

 

 

to Foundations dug for (most) of the outside...

 

 

To Foundations for outside and most of the interior walls :)

 

Sorry for the bad photo

 

 On Friday the plan was to try and have to foundations ready for inspection by tomorrow so they can pour them and start building. Needless to say this would be FANTASTIC but as I already mentioned we have some super stubborn trees to contend with !

By the way for anyone wondering about how small things look, I have been told that the digging the foundations make things look smaller than they actually are .

 

Here's hoping they're right :)