We Have Bricks!!!!!!!! Mocha Cat 4

We are beyond thrilled to have had the brickwork started. The house has been absolutely battered with the weather the last month. Everything has held up so well considering this (the wrap needed a bit of repairing in two small parts and the window reveals in the theatre room will be replaced - due to water damage). The brickwork is the light at the end of weather tunnel!!! Our SS implied yesterday that they chose this particular brickie for our house (may explain the 2 1/2 week delay). They probably tell you those things to make you feel special! However, he built our SS house and his supervisors (who was there for our visit yesterday). His work so far looks amazing! I am such a brick expert after all....... The work that has been completed so far will also be rendered, so we were impressed with the neatness and mortar. We've seen some 'interesting' brickwork and mortar for walls that are to be rendered - our SS said it often looks like they are thrown in from across the street! 

We were a little surprised at the mortar colour. My husband and I stared at it for quite some time and were pretty disappointed with the look of 'off white mortar' which we paid for. The first thing our SS said yesterday (before we even checked) was that it wasn't off white, under the render. Huge, sigh of relief! They say off white can vary from area to area depending on the location of the sand etc. But it's nothing like white!! Our facade is rendered + some wrapping around the edges. The remainder of the house is brickwork with off-white mortar.

The brickwork started on Wednesday. Here is the progress so far! 

Bricks - Boral Mocha - Upgrade Cat 4;
Hardwick Facade - with Full Render

Day 1)

Day 2)

  

We had wondered how the left pillar would be built - a secret concrete slab! We are also slightly bewildered how the horizontal ledge in between the pillars will be built without framework! More to come on that as it progresses.  

Locked Up Ready for Work Tomorrow

All Wrapped Up

Friday last week the house got it's coat on! All wrapped up in weatherproof foil. The whole backwards building process isn't really sitting that well so the wrapping better hold up. We've been past other builds where the wrapping is ripped and hanging of the house, so we are hoping that doesn't happen to us.  Inside, it is starting to feel like real rooms. Thought it might make it feel small, but it doesn't at all. Moving on quickly still!

Wrapping at Front

 Makes the windows on this side look a little small!

Wrapping on the side of the garage.

This has got us a little bewildered as we were told the side of the garage would be bricked internally. This obviously can't be done with wrapping. I guess the brickies may full it down. There is almost enough room down the side, so they may change technique and do it externally (like the remainder of the house). More to come. Bricks should start on Friday, weather permitting.