With a great surprise, our Build Watch email notification shared our kitchen under construction today – for me, the most exciting part of our house. We did quite a few modifications to this area, spent a fraction more money than estimated, but hopefully the outcome will be what we…
The walls have been sheeted and the rooms are starting to taking shape. Who would have known this is how you build a house! Our front entrance area. Our living area. Our stairwell in progress. Our master bedroom en-suite.
Wow, what a week. Our first inspection, the Build Watch cameras taken down from the outside and moved indoors and our insulation has been installed. Before I forget, save any photos that you want to capture from the Build Watch camera. Unfortunately, Eden Brae could not retrieve old…
We’ve just had our first inspection with Paul. Armed with gumboots to protect the feet (enclosed sturdy shoes should also be fine), this is the most exciting part of our build thus far. If you have time prior to the inspection, refresh your memory by reviewing your floor…
Wow. It’s taken a while for our house to even look like a house… and now it finally does! The brick work is finished and recently cleaned, plus the new colourbond roof is fitted too. Paul advised “the lower brick clean, eave install, electrical rough in and frame inspections…
Our visits to the house have reduced as we’ve been waiting for the brick laying to be finished. Unfortunately, we’ve had a bad run with weather and it’s taken over six weeks for this process thus far. Still waiting for the next steps, but until there’s a roof…
It’s been quite some time now, watching these bricks rise. I’ve learnt to realise this stage of the process is honestly… slow. We’ve had ok weather, so I guess this is the speed bricklaying runs at! That said, we’re nearly there. Only a few weeks left and the external…
Another email from Paul to advise the scaffolding was going to be installed last week. Next layer of brickwork has begun.