The slab is aliiive!!!

Hi everybody. Its finally here! The bottom of our house is done. Once again, as this progresses you can see the different sections of the house. Can you see our alfresco area clearly now in the second picture? The first shot shows the garage but you can also see our front porch as well :)

We spent a little time out there today watching it all happen and let me tell you i am so amazed at how they do this stuff. It is way more technical than just pouring that concrete right on in there.

I believe we may have to wait about 10 days till they can build on it so get ready to see some frame work happening soon people :) 

Blake and i are heading out to a home expo this weekend so we may have some photos etc to show y'all. Should be fun.

Bye for now house followers.

Pour that slab!!!!!!

Hi my fellow house followers. That was a mouthful. These beautiful pictures that you are seeing here are the last before our concrete is poured :) we are assured that this will happen tomorrow. If it rains i will probably cry or at least be a little disheartened (this is Sarz, not Blakey... just to protect his manly- ness).

You can now see specific parts of the house. If you look at the third picture, that square section on the right (back of the house) is our alfresco area :) pretty.

In the first picture, the large section that is much lower than the rest is our garage. The drop down from the house is huge so there will be stairs in the corner from the hallway. I think it is 3m from floor to ceiling here. This is going to be our gym so plenty of room to jump high and pump some iron or just hide from Blake and pretend that I'm working out.

We can't wait to go out tomorrow and see the slab. You know what comes next people... Frames and windows and other exciting buildy things.

Bye for now. Try to get a little sleep, i know your all so excited.

xox

Something in the pipeline :)

Hi all. Here we are again showing you more pictures of dirt, however this post will include pictures of dirt with pipes everywhere... much more exciting. This has been very fun as you can see where things will be like our kitchen sink and down stairs bathroom. I believe that they have to lay this metal stuff and the foam stuff you see in the background before they can pour the slab. We have learnt that you must know your house plans back to front as you want to be sure everything is exactly where it is suppose to be. This is not because we don't trust the builders etc but simply because we have heard some interesting stories of pipes ending up in hall ways.... could make for an interesting decorative highlight but i don't think so.

Thats all for now. We are thinking of doing a few Vlogs which could be fun so keep a look out.

Ready..Slab.. Go!!!

This is a really exciting part. The next thing that will happen is our concrete slab. The wood that you can see is the outline of our house. Its rather confusing seeing your house in this way as i can't get over how small it looks.. I am guaranteed that when wood and gyprock appear it will start to feel like its regular size. Oh how our eyes play tricks on us. Lets pray for continuous sunny days like this one for our builders. Rain rain go away.

A Fence

Just in case you didn't already figure it out from the huge green sign, we are building with Clarendon Homes. It sounds silly but this big fence is making this all seem very real now. Finally you can see it happening and our excitment is just a tad evident through our late night trips out to the dirt... embarrassing but true. We are hoping this coming week brings some concrete along :) then we are really cooking with gas. 

Let The Digging Begin!!

We were woken quite early by Blake's sister who lives around the corner from our block to very excitedly tell us that there were a bunch of trucks on our land. They were digging :)

We are relieved that this day has come as time now should hopefully fly and before we know it we will have bricks and wood and all sorts of other exciting bits and pieces going on.

Our Land :)

1/12/2011

We knew nothing about how hard we would have to fight and how long it would take us to get this piece of grass, but what a beautiful piece of grass it is.

521sqm
17m wide, 30m deep

The long wait begins till we see some of that grass being moved.