This is the standard photo I've been posting on facebook - from the same spot, whenever we have any new stuff appearing on the block. For some reason facebook doesn't like this photo so I'm going to try and post it here....
Well we finally made it to bricking up time! Had a few false starts, with the wall trusses arriving later than expected. And the windows arriving earlier than we wanted them to. And the following:
- Had issues with the lintels, in particular the one above the garage door. The engineer (read: Bikeman) ordered the wrong size so it was too small - and only realised once the brickie was onsite and called us. He also had issues with the garage door we had ordered - turned out the frame which came with it should have been installed by a chippie so that caused further panic where we had to go and find a steel garage door so that the bricking could continue.
- So we ordered a new lintel, which arrived onsite the next day... only to find that the manufacturer had put two of the bits (sorry for the non-technical information) the wrong way. So it was too short one side and too long the other. So back we went again, new lintels required.... eeep! More delays.
The brickie was brilliant, in the end he and his guys ended up onsite on Saturday to finish the job which was great of him, especially considering none of the issues had been his! A slab of beer went his way and hopefully he enjoyed it after a long week!
In the week to come: Bikeman has some time off to finish the roof trusses and do some general work around the house. We have to do things like stain and varnish the window sills, paint the wooden lintels for the alfresco, and clean the sticky residue on the windows left from the stickers on them. Plus adding a few extra noggins in the walls for things like the TV, toilet roll holders, shelving, etc etc. No doubt will keep him busy! I believe we may be at lockup in about a month, which would be great - get it out of the way before the cold weather hits. Will keep y'all posted...
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