Building progress

Well it's been a while since I have posted anything to this blog but that doesn't mean there hasn't been progress... cos there has!

On the 12th June, groundworks started with holes being dug into the ground for each of the footings... and unfortunately the guys kept hitting rocks so the holes got bigger and bigger and bigger... which meant that a whole extra lot of concrete needed to be ordered in even despite the best effort of the team to throw extra rocks back into the hole to make them smaller in volume.


Will then installed a gate on the 15th June so that the builders could leave some of the materials on site without too many dramas. But putting the gate in was not an easy feat when we were in a rush and had poor materials to work with. We dug out the holes (experienced similar problems as the excavator where we kept hitting rocks so ended up with much wider holes than we wanted) and put the posts in and poured in a bag of quick set concrete (and hauled water from the dam). The gate looked good... until someone used it a few days later! We did a return trip and fixed the gate on the 20th June and it's been good ever since!

There was work being done on the 20th with the brickie putting in the brick piers. I was very happy as the brick piers were quite tall... which meant the floor of the house was going to be higher than I first thought.

After a few mishaps and a strangely silent supplier, the A&A Worm Farm Waste System was installed on the 16th July. We're very excited about it and can't wait till the house is completed so it can be used. It's a strange little set up with a compost bin sitting on top of the tank and a tall vent spinning in the wind. Whilst a bit nonplussed about the lack of communication when it was being installed the stated 'passion' that the CEO has given me hope that the hype of the system will live up to expectations.

Anyway today we went up and saw the floor was down! (And as usual walking around the footprint of the house it seems very small. But the decks seem huge in comparison!) Will was pretty impressed with the corrugated sheeting which was under the house to provide extra protection / insulation... I think he was particuarly impressed with the additional storage space that height of the floor would give him!