Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor

Here is the finished subfloor - locally known as the dance floor.Rachael and Oscar - you gotta get me down from here....

We took a visit to the timber framers - here are three of our four valley beams measuring 8" by 14" in size.

Here are some timbers ready for packaging for transport to site.

Our front deck piers.

We now have a site office - well, a portaloo!
Here are two folks trying to decide where to put it.

The site.

The frame will start to go up this week - we shall keep you posted!

Rachael - Junior General Contractor

Shaun - Senior General Contractor

David - Superior General Contractor

Oscar, Felix and Daphne - Support Staff

Foundation, backfill and slab pouring

The 1st October 2010 we got our foundation walls poured for the house and garage.

A couple of days later the shuttering was removed. Below is the wall at the front of the house all 9 feet tall. Sono tubes for the deck piers.

The delivery of the lumber for the subfloor and foam insulation for the crawl space.

This was after the waterproofing guy had been in to spray the foundations which would be below grade. You wouldn't think that this day the temperature got to 24 degrees C in the afternoon!

Rachael and Oscar stood in the house after the backfill.

Shaun stood on the house!

We had a break from visiting site and went to see our timberframers, here is one of our timbers showing the end profile we have chosen.

This was the pouring of the slab for the crawl space in the house.

2 days later the subfloor was looking good.

Our Contractors even set up our plastic garden seat so we had a view!

Hope you enjoyed the update - let us know what you think.

Have a great day!

Footings and Foundations

Work started on digging the foundationsShaun stood near the garage
Foundations for the house and garage

Setting levels

The front of the house marked out

Rachael and Oscar do a site inspection after the footing forms are made

More of the framing for footings

Pumper truck arrives ready to pour the footings

The concrete truck (the first of three that day) and pumper

The poured footings

Site inspection after the footings are poured

Footings for the front of the house and deck

Shuttering arrives

Front of the house as shuttering starts to go up

Site inspection with shuttering up

Front foundation wall -back fill will be up to around where Rachael's shoulder level

Garage and house waiting for the concrete. The day after this photo we got 5 concrete trucks and our foundation walls were poured - stay tuned for more photos.

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