Day 33 - Fast

They really don't muck around once they get going. We drove past the block yesterday and saw they were working, went down this afternoon to see the progress and were quite impressed. They've done about half of the external walls, about half of the internal bricks for those walls and even started on one of the internal walls itself. Not to mention that the damaged corner has been removed now save for a few remnants. Here are some pics with a bit further detail:


They've placed some scaffolding around the front corner of the house, I assume in preparation for laying the bricks above head height. Also, you can't really tell in this photo too easily, but the big pile of dirt out the front is gone.


You can see here that they've now done the whole back wall and half of the right hand side one up to head height.


The internal bricks are done on this side, and you can just see the strapping coming up over the top in between the two layers of bricks. This strapping will be tied to the roof to help keep it on :)


Our first internal wall! This is our ensuite and toilet.


It's true what they say about everything looking bigger once the walls go up. We're really getting an idea of the size of our back yard, it seemed a bit small before, but it seems quite reasonable now there are walls. The boundary of our block is where the limestone wall on the far side steps up.


This is the right hand side of the house from the rear. Once the slab went down we thought there would be room for a thin path and a narrow strip of garden, but it's quite a spacious passage now.


We saw a bobcat at the block on Saturday and judging by the track marks I'd say it was used to lift and remove the section of the slab that is now missing.


And here is the missing section, up side down. I suppose this is going to be the rubbish pile now.


We also went for a walk down to the lake. The grass is starting to fill in and it's starting to look quite nice.

That's it for today, I've updated the picture in the side bar, don't forget you can click it for a larger version. I won't be surprised if the new part of the slab is poured tomorrow so we should have another update then.