Monthly Archives: April 2014

The project has arrived at a small fork in the road: to move rapidly ahead with scaffolding , which allows a start on the lower timber floor of the main house and the studio and their wall framing, or unusually, … Continue reading →

The overall foundations really begin to take shape once the poles start getting welded in place. Your photographer got to the site too late to see the installation process but managed to see the amount of thought and concentration required … Continue reading →

The block walls are only a small part of the foundations for the whole house. While the number of blocks laid hasn’t been counted, on level ground this would be considered a relatively small job. The blocklayers are pleased (and relieved) … Continue reading →

The blocklayers waste no time in getting organised. Meanwhile Jarrod digs the trenches for the stormwater and sewer lines that connect into the sewer and stormwater mains at the south-east corner of the site.          

It takes imagination for architects, engineers and builders to design and build a house. Along the way, strange things sometimes appear.

In the preceding days, the concrete cures enough to allow the formwork to be stripped off and a couple of pallets of blocks are delivered to the site. Getting them from the top of the block down to where the blocklayers … Continue reading →

What can your photographer do while the concrete is curing? Why, take a photo of course! If you look at the ridge line in our main photo of Hobart, yes the one at the top of this and every page and … Continue reading →

Tuesday, April 1, is a big day and your photographer, never one to like missing the action, takes a couple hours off work to be there. By early afternoon the traffic management crew are in place, the huge pump truck with … Continue reading →

Saturday: the team is driving ahead to be ready for the planned concrete pour on Tuesday. Two more carpenters join in just for the day to assist Ian and Damien. It’s a lucky time for your photographer, who works full-time and hates … Continue reading →

Despite some rainy days that slowed down and in a few cases temporarily stopped progress and a 4-day illness for a key building team member, things move ahead. Holes are drilled into rock in the bottom of the pier-hole excavations … Continue reading →