Yeah, 17 weeks in and we’ve (they’ve!) built to the top of the house (and garage). The scaffolding is up at roof level, the steelworks are all in, the brickies have finished, the joiners are finishing the roof joists and decking and the roofers start next week. We head back down the house over the two months with roofs, cladding and then lots of detailing finishing off. And the next year or five finishing off.
We had a bit of a issue on the cladding with a 10k+ overspend, primarily on stainless brackets to take the vertical weight of the cladding. Overspend was rejected and everyone had to knuckle down and come up with a more cost-effective solution .. which we have. It’ll all be plain sailing now .. er .. right.
As normal .. I now realise, we see days on great progress with walls, steelworks and roofs shooting up, days were you see little progress as its detailing finishing and preparing for the next stage, and days of no progress .. when is blxxdy raining.
I’ve been a sparkie the past week and have most of the first fix of electrics in, grinding out back boxes was filthy work but done quickly with the right kit. Think I’m up to 5km of cabling.
Kitchens design is settled, bathrooms ok except we cannot find a layout for the first floor that we like. We’re having to start thinking of interior design .. we need to add the quirkiness that we want to the house, but I’m struggling as my brain is full of the build and first fixes.