Shed finished

The shed is finished and will be wired tomorrow. Windows arrive tommorrow and we will start putting up frames. A busy day but it will be great to keep the progress going.

Frames arrive

The frames and half the trusses have arrived, luckily the polisher has finnished and moved his gear off site. More trusses should arrive tommorrow and we will need to man handle them onto the site.
The floor looks great and includes the garage. I will have the best garage floor ever.It was done as an extra due to the pouringg rain as they finished the pour. They were unable to top it correctly and for the added cost, the result is stunning.

Things are moving

A couple of days of good weather on the building site.
The polishing is well underway and looking good. Another day and a half and it will be complete until the walls are plastered. Good news is that no protection of the slab is needed. The floor is already hard and trested and very little will damage it in the normal building process.
I need to hire an explosive power tool for the frame instalation. Frames are dure Monday. Windows are due Thursday. Shed roof and other bits arrived today. I got the windows in and hope tommorrow is fair weather and I will get the roof on. It will be great to seal up the roof and the rest of the walls before monday.
I ordered the rainwater tanks and pump unit earlier in the day after looking at them yesterday. They arrived today and I have used the grinding powder from the floor as fill to make the base for the tanks beside the shed. The tanks will provide for toilets and laundry and drinking water in the house.


In all a productive day. The pest control under the frames is booked for Tusday.

A weekend of shed building

The shed kit arrived Saturday Morning, so I spent the weekend putting up the frame. A few call outs for work on saturday cut the work short. A few things wrong with the was dissapointing. Missing bits, wrong colour roofing, a couple of short pieces due to wrong calculations by the company. I will need to chase them up on monday.


In all we got most of the frame up, Heather did a great job helping on Sunday. The next couple of days should see the wall sheeting go on but who would know when the right colour roof will arrive.

Should see the polisher tomorrow if all goes well. I broomed the slab off so it would be as dry as possible tomorrow.

The ups and downs of house building

We have been SLOWLY building the house. The digging and plumbing went along well. both did a good job and the electricians also completed their work as requested. Then came the concrete, poor weather and the need to bring the mix from far away held the slab up for too long. The mix is called eastern beach with 5% bluestone. This is to be polished and has cost about 10k more thanthe original quote. It is finally down and the shed slab followed a few days later.

POLISHING. We are polishing over 1/2 the floor instead of having floor coverings and after more rain, a small attempt at polishing we still don't have it done 2 weeks after the slab was laid. The polisher has fractured his jaw and is off work for a week so hopefully this coming week will see it done. He has kept me informed all the time so that is good and I beleive the things he has told me.

THE SHED. After being promised delivery 2 weeks ago and paying the final payment we are still waiting for the local shed company to deliver the shed. I keep getting told it is going to happen but they all turn to be lies. I am still waiting and hoped to be putting it up this weekend. He trusting companies is getting less and less. No more full payments before delivery. I would sooner be told it isn't going to happen than being told it is but then it doesn't happen.

The FRAMES. We decided on steel frames with a mid state company and were promised 4 weeks delivery. We are now going into 6 weeks and again the stories turn out to be untrue. It is hard to trust trades companies when they don't tell you the truth until you have made all the plans. I have planned holidays and allowed extra time just in case but have been dissapaointed again.

Pissed off at this stage. Moving soil will be the work of the weekend again.