Bricks Progress today..

Wow, 8 bricklayers today....surprise!

We also had our internal plumbing done...great, the floor was drilled upstair so if it rains again, the water will run to first floor...:)

The thing is, we still haven't gotten the roof, and with the cloudy scattered shower like this, our house will suffer slightly....

Here's the progress today :
http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/058.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/057.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/002-4.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/001-5.jpg

Scaffolding and roof delivered!!

Nice surprise today...
We got our roof tiles delivered and also scaffolding was up...:)

Few photos to update our bricks progress.
It's day 7 for bricks, the brickies had 2 days off because one of the was sick....

Our Alfresco door:

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/016-1.jpg

Side of the house :

http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/?action=view&current=002-3.jpg

Our roof:

http://s1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/?action=view&current=001-4.jpg

Bricks Progress in 1 week...

Here are the photos for 1 week progress...

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/010-2.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/011-1.jpg

I think our brickies have done good job so far. Although there are some windows gap here and there, it wasn't their fault, they just followed our SS instruction to brick it like that, and it's either the frames company messed up the frame's calculation  or it's normal to have windows sills/infills like that.
The brickies said once they infills it, I won't even know / notice the difference/the gap. Yes, hope so...

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/014-1.jpg

Brickies starts today!! Awesome!

Nothing can describe this feeling when my SS called me this morning that our brickies are on site....:) after  1 month with no progress....
Thank you, SS...

I visited them this afternoon and there are 4 brickies there still doing their job until 3pm only (because it's Friday! :))
They are so nice and friendly, mid 50 I guess...

Here are the photos of the progress today :

Raked Joints or Ironed Joints

Well, yesterday SS called me that the bricks labourer has noticed that the bricks are not even shapes, hence with ironed joints that we chose, it won't be good. Oh, no....so SS has decided to make 2 sample batches of Raked Joint (that he thinks is the best) and Ironed Joints.

Sample of Ironed joints done this morning :
http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/009-1.jpg

Photo of a house nearby using the same bricks with Ironed Joints :
http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/003.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/005-1.jpg
I saw that Raked Joints give a better aesthetique finish to the bricks. So I have have decided to go with Raked joints...
Sample of Raked joints this morning :

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/012.jpg

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/willcress/011.jpg


Unfortunately, the brickies are still finishing jobs somewhere else...so SS said tomorrow they will start.

Fingers crossed, praying hard....

3 weeks and none's done...

It's official, today is the 3rd week of nothing's done in our site...
The hardest thing was the weather was so good, sunshine all the way ...(oh, we only got 2 rain days & 1 public holiday/Anzac day).

I made an official complaint email to FS, the head of supervisor on Wednesday and he called me back on Thursday. Not long after, my SS called me and we had a good chat and in the end, he said there'll be labourer on Thursday arvo and Friday to move the bricks around, so on Monday the brickies can start their work.

I felt relieved with the conversation we had and started to trust him again, but Thursday no one came and Friday until now, there's no one moving the brick around as promised. I texted him and no response.
So, again, so dissapointed....