One Full Wall, Maybe even Two!

This weekend Jan, Stan and I worked on the street side for two
days after rearranging certain areas where the wood was
warping and bowing - finally at 5.30 on Sunday we got to
the complete top - unreal!


Then on Monday Jan and Stan worked on the front section of the
house - I returned home from work to find the front of the house completed
up to the the top as well!! Amazing stuff after having to battle the elements
over the past few weeks, seemingly making little ground to all of a sudden
have it all happen at once.

This coming weekend we are endeavouring to get the final
two walls completed - hopefully we will be toasting a four
walled weatherboard house on Sunday...... fingers crossed.










You may notice that the house appears to be two-tone - yes your eyes are
right - I didnt get to paint all the boards before they went up, so the light boards
are the ones that I did paint - the grey ones weren't so lucky.

It's been a while... Sorry for the delay

Hello to all those of you who are interested in the progress on our house - the feedback so far has been excellent.

Since I've returned to work, I've been having to travel an hour each way, doubled up with working on the house full time on the weekends so I haven't been able to update in some time. First some updates as to the progress.

Roof has been completed. We have decided on the floor board provider - a mate of my brother in law - Jamie - can get us a really good deal on Jarrah floorboards - so Steve the floorboard dude is coming around to measure up this Saturday.

Kaz has gone and spent up big on whitegoods and can now provide the dimensions of said appliances to the kitchen maker - Impala Kitchens - in readiness for that to start construction.

Jan and Stan have been fantastic, working through the most disgustingly hot days we have ever experienced (including sharing with me the hottest day in the history of Melbourne, trying to put insulation paper up and then weatherboards while the temperature reached 46.4 degrees celsius) in order to get where we are - 2/3 to 3/4 of all the weatherboards now up as you can see below.

My dad Russ has come down to go around the completed boards with the electric sander and has started puttying up the gaps.

Craig our plumber has been in with his bobcat to dig out the sewerage pipes to the back of the house. Heaps of progress.

This weekend Jan, Stan and I are hoping to get all the boards on - in time for our sparky Erin to get started with roughing in the cables. I have to get my butt moving on the plaster - more photos to come soon.











Jan (my father in law)


Stan (Jan's brother in law)




Here's the view of the city from our house - click on it - its not too bad




















Back soon,
Cam

Here come the boards!

Jan (my father in law) and Stan (my Uncle in law) came over for the past two days to show me some samples of what it takes to be a builder. First day and a half we spent wrapping the house up in insulation, nailing in special nails into the studs to hold the paper in place - at times balancing precariously at the top of the roof on top of a ladder - but we managed to do it with our limbs remaining firmly in place. I have even learnt how to hammer with my left hand..

Here's Jan cutting up the insulation paper for the next section.


Here's Mitch and Molly inspecting the work - and Uncle Stan's in the background.


Here I am with my Kharki cowboy hat - trying to nail in.

Finally today after getting the middle section of insulation done on the bedroom side, I got to nail in my first board onto the house - here's the proof:



Here's a shot of the workers


Jan and Stan are coming back again tomorrow to do some more boards - I'm out at Doveton so will see what I can do when I get home. More pics to come - rock on.