Around at the house first thing this morning (9.30am) but the brickies where on site again.

So we just took a couple of photo's and decided to return later in the day (4pm) to check out the progress.

Scaffold has been put up all around the house and the vapour barrier put in place on the second floor. This should have been done on Monday/Tuesday this week.

The bricks are now about 3/4 of the way up on all the walls.

Still missing bricks over the study window and the garage, both need the steel lintels to be put in-place (both are sitting in the front garden). More views of the house brick work from the back garden. Watching the tradies getting the bricks onto the scaffold this morning, a little conveyor belt moving the bricks up (no more climbing with a hod on your shoulder. Hopefully by next weekend the brickwork is all finished and perhaps doors have been installed.

Climbing upstairs and then onto the scaffold we get a good view of the back garden. It isn't looking too good at the moment with piles of broken bricks and other building debris.

Its also easy to see that the garden doesn't absorb water very well, so some drainage may be needed (it's the same at the side of the house). We should start to check the 'type' of soil we have (and the depth of any pipes/wires running through the back garden).

Side of the house, brickie working at the back getting the bricks conveyor'd up to him (although he could not keep up with the bricks and dropped a fair few.

Once the builders had left we decided to get into the house and look whats changed on the inside. In all of the bathrooms the shower trays have been installed with plastic placed over the top to protect the tray. The three en-suites have the same size trays, with the master bedroom having a double size shower tray. The pipes for the bidets have STILL not been moved (we have been informed again that they know they need to be moved) we will have to wait and see when they will do it.

So the tiles are on, and a friend from work suggested we check the overlap, as it has ben known that builders don't leave any overlap (less tiles but more leaks). Looking at the roof structure from the inside it looks like the distance between the wood batons are spaced to give more than an inch in overlap. Will measure the distance properly on our next visit.

Climbing out onto the masters balcony and then onto the scaffold to get a view of the side of the house. Not a bad view across the Toomuc Creek and the (yet to be planted) traditional parkland and walkway. On the other side of the trees some more houses will be built, but once the trees grow, it should all be Parrots and Kookaburra's.

This will be the view from the top of the stairs, though the rumpus room and out across the Toomuc Creek. We wanted as many windows as possible in this room, as its likely we will spend most of our time in this room (unless we are outside).