Brickwork - The Highs!

We've had a busy week, in more ways than one. There have been highs and lows this week. I'm going to start with the positives then get into the negatives.

The brickwork has powered on during the week. The weather has been very kind and our swamp of a yard has almost completely dried out, to the delight of the brickies. The rest of the week isn't looking as optimistic though. 

Our concerns of the off white mortar continued. We were still questioning whether or not it was off white. We were usually seeing the mortar a few hours dry and as the week progressed we have seen how the colour changes and the whiteness comes through (some of these photos are taken of still wet mortar). It's nice to see the clean colour with each day it dries. The western side of the house is showing more of the authentic colour now.  We are really happy with the colour of the bricks and the work brickies have done a really neat job (there is more to this though). It's great that some walls are almost complete and we can see how our colour choices are coming together. I'm writing this with a heavy heart this week, from our disappointments, so it's hard to be too excited. Lots of positives though and we know the final result will look great. 

Back of the garage (extra wide door - to fit a wheelbarrow)

Can see the Woodland Grey Roof against Boral Mocha Bricks = HAPPY!

The Front Coming Together

Dining Room

Lounge

Mortar Yet to Dry

The Garage

This wall did have to be built internally. Therefore the plaster, cornice etc needed to be ripped down.

We thought this would be the case.

Up She Goes!

More Bricks Delivered (there were at least another 10 pallets)

The Rubble