Coming along nicely....

It has been a while since my last post, so much has happened since then! Everything seems to be flowing along nicely. The weather at the moment is a little bit on the shitty side, however the rain has held off enough that they are still able to work. The Bricklayer's started yesterday, hopefully the rain will stay away long enough for them to finish, and for the roof to be put on.
I am amazed at how much they have managed to get done in just over a month! 
We met up with our site supervisor Wayne yesterday, he seems like a top bloke! Wayne explained everything to us, showed us around and put my mind at ease over the whole process of us getting our timber floors laid, although we are still unsure as to whether the floor is being laid before the kitchen or after, I am pretty sure he said that the tiles in the wet areas are done before the timber floors, so that way we can have the timber at the same height as the tiles (No NASTY step to stub my toe on), I will confirm when we do our next walk through. The timber floors are laid after the gyprock has been done, and then McDonald Jones finish off the architraves and door jambs, and we will get them polished after we receive the KEYS........ Not long now, they say mid January, I say March...I like to allow for delays :) I try not to think too much about it as even though 7 months could fly like that, it could very well be the longest 7 months of my life (well other than being pregnant).
So enough of the boring stuff here are some photo's

The waffle pods

more pods

The Slab

We have been framed

More Frame

The view from the kitchen

Theatre room

The Bath

A Bedroom Window

Toilet

Ensuite

Bricks have started

Kitchen

Laundry

Side of house

almost done

Bricks finished, guttering done

roof

The Roof ( LOVE IT)

Garage (We have Gyprock)

Theatre Room

The side of the house

Alfresco

Bath 

All Gone

Demolisher's finally finished on Tuesday! 3 weeks it took....Not happy Jan! 

We were told a week, admittedly they started on the Monday looks like they did some stuff on the Tuesday and then it rained for the rest of the week, Monday was a public holiday and Tuesday and Wednesday it rained the following week...come Thursday and Friday no sign of any work it was cold and a little overcast but it was not raining! Its Monday again and still no one on site (I have to go past our block twice a day to drop off and pick up my son from school, also my husband goes past on his way home from work around lunch time, we got constant surveillance on that place lol). Tuesday Nothing as well, we made a phone call after that (we are incredibly patient people, but enough is enough!) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they were there but alias they didn't get to finish the job. I am sure they started at 8 and finished at 3! Monday AGAIN!!! No one to be seen another phone call, the job got finished the next day....Looks like they did a good job however there still seems to be a few roots in the ground at the front and side of the block, I hope that won't matter? Would I recommend these guys ABSOLUTELY NOT, and the reason being not entirely based on it taking so long, but for not having the decency to keep us informed about what they were up to!

On a Happy Note our site supervisor has our file and is organising site cut....YIPPPEEEEE!

The walls came tumbling down

Well after months of getting things sorted, we are finally getting things started. All our trees were removed last weekend and the demolition team turned up on monday. Unfortunately bad weather meant that no work was done on Thursday and Friday, but the forecast for the rest of the week looks good, so hopefully all will be done by the end of the week and ready to start construction.

before with trees

After trees are cut down

Day 2 of demolition

I thought that maybe seeing the house being pulled to pieces would upset me, seeing we raised our babies here...However I am so glad to see the mould ridden, freezing cold/stinking hot cramped house go. 

Time to move

We have decided it is time to move, Council should be all done within the next few weeks and we really need this time to pack up and get out!
We found a place on Friday and get the keys next week, I am feeling so overwhelmed by how much I have to do. I started packing months ago however this house is so small I had to stop at some point as I had no where to put boxes without feeling like I was living in the middle of a lego building. At least the house we are moving to is big enough to store the stuff we don't need as well as live comfortably.

A council clean up or 2 will be required as well as a skip bin, I AM FREAKING OUT HERE!

This how it feels right now

Colour selection done!

Well that was fun! we have chosen our colours and it was so much easier than I thought! I will however be deleting a couple of extra things we threw in on the spur of the moment but other than that all good and I stuck to what we needed and maybe snuck in a couple of things, nothing like catching the other half off guard :)

Kitchen splash back, bench top, cupboards and the spotted gum floorboards, which we will get done after handover.

The outside of the house 

Kitchen again

Bathroom

all of the colours together including paint.

outside again 

Bricks means tricks!

Go and choose a brick, they say! Pick the brick and choose the rest after, they say!
Easier said than done I SAY!!!

Pretty much spent the entire day looking at bricks and houses built in the bricks that we like or at least we thought that we did!
So we liked 4 bricks ok thats easy NOT!

Once these suckers are put together as a building they look completely different. Some of the house's we looked at today depending on how the rest of the colour scheme was put together would enhance that baby poo colour in the brick or the brick went from what I thought was brown to red it has left me spinning in confusion.

It is not just the brick but the colours you put with it as well …my anxiety levels are at an all time high!

The way I look at it, stuff up the colour in the kitchen or the tiles in your bathroom and eventually these can be changed.As for the Bricks you are stuck with those F@#%ers for life and driving up my driveway and looking at them for the next 20 years or so and hating them is not the required outcome that I wish to achieve!

So back to the drawing board and back to Austral bricks to re-research our choice in bricks!

TiMBeeeeeeeR

TREES TREES TREES…..yep we have a lot! I am thinking that these beautiful trees have to go, yes! yes they do!

I actually feel very sad about this, I Love them but they are in the way and I promise as soon as I can I will plant more but this time I will make sure they are all native and not have a ridiculous root system. One of the trees we have has a very large root system and to me this is a worry.
We have to get them removed, who does this the tree guy or the people who demolish and clear the block?

I feel my stress levels elevating with every little or big thing that has to be decided upon ARRRGGGHHH!!! I am today having a particular bad day and days like these I think what the hell have I got myself into.

Anyway if anyone has any recommendations on Demolition people or tree people that would be great I guess the best place to start is with quotes.

Colours

We have our deposit variation, we want to make a few small changes one being the air conditioner and the other the glass to our bedroom we would like double glazed there even though our neighbour is rather quite I would still prefer to have it! Hopefully wont be a problem to make any necessary changes!

Our colour walk through will be in 2 weeks so I best get myself organised about what colours we would prefer and a trip to austral bricks will be required as well.....Busy Times

I am liking this sofa bed for the kids area...just getting ahead of myself and having a little dream of some furniture I would like :)

and the Spotted Gum timber floors that I would like.

 I LOVE THEM!

Understanding the Quote

So we have a Quote! most of it is fairly straight forward some i'm just not sure about, GOOGLE is now my new best friend! However I am hoping some of you lovely bloggers out there might have some tips and advice for me.

We want double glazed windows on the master bedroom to help eliminate noise as our bedroom will be along the neighbours driveway. In the quote its 6.38mm laminated sun energy. Not sure that it will provide much noise block Does anyone know anything about this?


Soil removal, should we be worried? This is something that we have to organise and pay for ourselves, the sales lady said this is a good thing but I am unsure... any advice here would be great too.