Pictures, but not much progress

Day 63 and I thought I would be showing you pictures of some bricks. Unfortunately the bricks are still wrapped up on their pallets. I think the only people on site today were the plumbers who installed the solar panels for the hot water.

I had a great time wandering around the house taking photos - there's still a long way to go but I really love our house. We took a bit of a gamble with the floor plan as there are no Denver 43s in Victoria available for inspection. We drove down to Traralgon to look through the Denver 31 and thought that it was OK, but we didn't love it. So we're lucky our gamble has paid off!

Our 4 star Bonaire ducted heater (above) some of the ductwork (below)

This photo is looking into our kitchen. At the moment you can see right through to our ensuite, but you can also see all the electrical cable hanging down, bits of conduit and some of the plumbers pipework.

I shouldn't even say it, but hopefully tomorrow the brickies will be on site. The insulation is going in on Monday so I'd really like at least a bit of the brickwork done. I know we've had the weather wrap done but I still worry that with all the rain we've had, and are forecast to have for the next week, that the insulation will get wet.

Latest happenings

Since my last post some progress has been made on a few of the problems we have identified.

Concrete boxing and reo has been set up in a couple of places where the house frame was overhanging the slab to support the brickwork. Our SS told us that the exposed reo will be fixed this week and the brickies are due to start tomorrow.

The plumbers have been and roughed in all the interior pipework. We were a bit surprised to find pipework that hadn't been properly clipped, but this is easily fixed before plastering begins. The duct work and heating unit have been installed - I'm really looking forward to having ducted heating next winter.

Our chippie has been on site to straighten walls and check that everything is OK.

The electricians were on site today running cables for the power points and lights. Due to the size and length of our house (and the associated electrical demands) a secondary power board is being installed in our linen cupboard. A bit disappointed with the locations of some power points, in many rooms we have two double power points on one wall. We thought that the outlets would be evenly spaced, both 600mm in from the adjoining walls, however one is right in the very corner and the other is about 600mm in. These aren't hard to fix before the plaster is done, but that's not how our electrical layout plan looks.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the progress the brickies make tomorrow and will definitely have photos. Our new camera has arrived but I ran out of daylight to get proper photos today.