Bricking has started!

We have been visiting the site regularly but there hasn't been too much to write about. But along with a new site supervisor we now have a group of brickies who were at work on Saturday, laying the shared wall between the garage and the house.

Also it's good that they have moved some piles of bricks into the backyard. As soon as the roof tiles had gone from the backyard on to the roof, someone took down the temporary fencing and started driving heavy machinery through our backyard! Now we have 50cm gouges running sideways all the way across. But with the bricks there they can't get past.



Bricks! For a double storey house, bricks are layed on the walls shared with the garage first, then the garage is built. So that's why these walls are getting done first. Apparently some brickies don't like double storey houses and won't do them. Bricklaying further up needs scaffolding.



Maybe they weren't able to do any more in the garage area .. they layed some bricks over at the side of the house too, behind the garage.



This is how they leave the corner, with some temporary bricks to hold the permanent ones in place.



Antenna has also been installed.



These arrived a week or two back. At the bottom is plasterboard, at the top is something black. There are a whole lot of these up on the second storey, as well as one pile in the family room/kitchen downstairs.



It looks like the heater has been installed. The big silver ducts are insulated, the dark coloured ducts (you can see one in the bottom left corner) appear not to be. I'm not sure if there should be a dark coloured duct up in the roof like that .. most of the uninsulated ones are downstairs.



I'll be checking to make sure they fix this before bricks go up on this wall.. the wrap is loose in many other areas too.