Day 115 - First floor joists and floor complete

First floor covered (apart from the hole for the staircase!)

 

Large steel spanning the living room.

The bridge for the first floor landing

Day 113 - Floor joists and first floor going on

Floor covering over the kitchen / dining room.

I-beam joists and floor over the kitchen / dining room.

Day 109 - Ground floor walls complete

In the lounge looking towards the rear patio doors

The open plan kitchen area from the front.

Looking into the office from the lounge.

Looking across the lounge to the kitchen from the office.

Front of the house - kitchen on the left, garage on the right.

Day 107 - Good progress, ground floor walls almost complete

Jaclyn standing in front of the patio door openings in the lounge

From the rear corner looking to the front of the kitchen

Slab for the pool house now ready

House from the rear showing the three large patio doors

The jigsaw puzzle of numbered panels sitting next door

Day 105 - We're going up!

Scaffolding up, soleplate down and the first SIPs panel wall up.

Day 104 - Ground floor concrete planks are on

Day 101 - Basement ready

Friday 30th Sept.  We missed the deadline for the timber frame and had to push it back a week.  Finishing off the basement walls has taken longer than expected and the load bearing walls needed longer to cure than anticipated before supporting the concrete floor planks.  In the meantime finishing off the perimeter walls fronting the sheet piling. Steels in place spanning the TV room, around the openings for the walk on glass floor sections and the stair opening.


Concrete planks arrive Monday.

Day 95 - Basement taking shape

Main load bearing walls almost complete.  Three working days before the timber frame arrives. Still a lot to do.

Looking across the basement kitchen from the base of the external staircase:

Looking back towards the kitchen from the corner of the TV room:

Day 94 - Load bearing walls going up in the basement

Day 92 - Basement slab poured

Tight timeline to now get the supporting walls and ground floor concrete planks in place ready for the timber frame to arrive on the 27th Sept.

Day 88 - Basement progress and drainage

Surface water drainage being laid and connected to the rainwater harvesting tank.

Waterproofing membrane added to the basement floor.  Next step is the steel reinforcement bars. The bottom has been shaped to allow for slab thickening under the load bearing walls and for the drainage.

Day 80 - Sheet piling contractors are done

After a few lost days due to the bad weather the sheet piling contractors have finished welding the puddle flange and sheer studs to the sheet piles. Next step is the basement slab.