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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 →

From today the piers are all dug. Then it’s on to digging the small strip footings that would support the block walls at the front of the house high up on the hill.   Progress has been slow but steady on … Continue reading →

By Day 3, Ian the builder and Darren the excavator operator describe the soil as ‘the worst we’ve ever seen’. Mostly ‘fill’ placed there to support the Woodcutters Road embankment when the road was built, it is full of small … Continue reading →

With the 20-foot container for the site office and the temporary fencing in place, excavation begins March 6. Darren drove his 5-tonne machine over the edge and slowly and carefully cut across the steep slope making the upper path. Once … Continue reading →