Brick by Brick...

... Building up the walls!

After having the bricks on site for just short of two weeks, I decided to email the builder to ask when we could expect to see the bricklayers on site. She replied that I must be psychic because she was just about to contact us to arrange the standard Brick Meeting on site with the supervisor.

So we met with the supervisor on Tuesday 18 Feb, where we discussed the process, asked a few questions to make sure things happen the way we want them to, and got the answer we'd been waiting two weeks to hear:

"The brickies start tomorrow!"

"Fantastic", we said, secretly thinking 'About bloody time!' 

Despite a 4am start and a diversion through the countryside due to a large truck crash on the highway to get myself home from a day spent in Perth, I managed to swing past on my way home, just before the sun went down, to check things out. The husband had already given me a run down of the progress, but I needed to see it for myself, impatient as I am, not wanting to wait til the next day! 

Progress!

The bricklayers had made light work of getting the front elevation underway. The two windows on the left are the Study and the three on the right are the Master Bedroom. And a lovely pink glow in the background as the sun goes down!

Study

They have done the internal leaf and started the external leaf across almost the entire front elevation, excluding the garage.

Master Bedroom

So whilst the site looks like a bit of a bomb site right now, we were very happy to see some movement happening!

Looking from near the Dining room back toward the front

The site supervisor seemed to think it would take around 4 weeks to brick up a house this size. We thought maybe 2 to 3 - we hope he is exaggerating so we don't hold him to anything, date-wise. 

A drive-by today, however, did show us that the brickies hadn't done anything today, so maybe the 4 weeks is accurate, based on an every-second day workload. Hopefully they just had to finish off something at another job and tomorrow will see them get into it and make some good progress! 

So, as the sun sets on another day, we keep our fingers crossed! 

Sunset from the detour through the countryside