The Roof, The Roof, The Roof is going on!!

Finally, we have some more progress at the house. After the debacle of the last 5 weeks with the sacking of brickies and all the other shit that goes with it, they are getting on with it again. The roof should be completely finished by the end of the week.

It's really starting to "look like a house" now, if ya know what I mean. The expansion of the roof opens up all the rooms and gives a true account of the shape the house will take when completed.

Considering that we paid the deposit of the house and land almost 1 year ago (23rd July)it's been a long haul to reach this point so hopefully things will continue to progress to the all important finale of handing over the keys.

Once at lock up the site supervisor ensures us that it'll be 10-12 weeks to get the keys. Lets just wait and see!!!

Nothing new since the last entry

Nothing has been done still!! It's been four and a half weeks since the brickies were on site. We met with our site supervisor last night and he said he sacked all the brickies working on our house for doing something that I can't publish. So if I see you about the place I'll tell ya.

Another thing was our lintels, they have been back in the workshop 4 times because the stupid wankers can't read drawings and keep making them too bloody big. This time round they are going to be cut and resized on site then put back in place today according to the supervisor, and the brick work will be finished by himself Saturday (17th June).
He told us during our meeting last night that the timber for the roof had also been stolen and reordered during the course of the last 4 weeks, nice hey. Some kid is getting a nice big free cubby house out of us.
Apparently we are getting a roofing crew early next week and the roof should be up by the end of next fortnight so I may or may not have new photo's. You will just have to wait and see.

It's amazing, Kay and I are down at the house every couple of days or so and we never saw anything to make us concerned other that the house not moving. Now we know why.

Lots and lots of stuff up's that we have to wear, but at a cost to the builder, not us!!

BRICK WORK STILL NOT DONE!!!!!

The cheeky buggers have asked for a progress payment for "plate high" when the brick work hasn't been finished. Silly silly people!!
All the materials are there to start on the roof timbers. The lazy mungrels haven't been back to finish the bricks for 2 1/2 weeks and THEY ask for a "PROGRESS" payment. Geezzz, what will they try and do next!!
We do however have a Portico and windows to our front bedroom finally.
I'm really starting to second guess the statement of them saying we'll be in before Xmas. Oh well moving along slowly.