We have walls!!!

We have had lots of progress this past month! 

All slabs have been poured, electrical, ducted vac, storm water drains, floor heating/cooling pipe work in and all final rammed earth walls are to be completed by the end of this week so it has been extremely hectic, stressful and finally very exciting to see it all coming together. We also had another interesting time with unreliable tradesmen so had to use a new grano guy who helped us out at the last minute and did a great job too so thankfully that stress is over now. Its also been going great with the new rammed earth team (Richard Jones of Murchison Rammed Earth) they have been happy, friendly guys who know what they are doing and are working so fast that it is almost complete and will be soon ready for a roof!!! Can't wait till Friday to see all the walls up!

Front view of the house.

Garage and front planter bed walls.

It took most of January and February to complete all of the main house slabs as there was a lot of work that needed to be done prior to the slabs being poured and our first grano guy didn't often arrive on time if at all, so frustrating! So we had to do a lot of extra labour ourselves so we could keep it moving, which turned into alot more late nights!

Footings and slab prep for bedrooms. 

 We have purchased an old bobcat, best decision as we have had a lot of use out of it already! Carting bricks, sand and rubbish around and just generally cleaning and clearing up the block and sand pads.

Garage slab poured and living room slab prep. Also one of the walls in the far games room starting to get cut down from first contractors mess up.

Pipework for slab heating/cooling and one of the manifolds.

Master bedroom and ensuite.

Rammed limestone walls in progress, Master bedroom almost complete.

Marcos finishing off Back steps.

Garage walls complete.