The first third of the house arrives.
The second third arrived at the same time.
Another view of the house arriving with the 'back' section being located.
Back section of house being jacked off back of truck.
The trailer is removed from under the house.
With the house jacked up, braces are driven into the ground to steady while piers are dug.
'Dingo' with auger, digging pier footings.
With footings dug, the crew begin assembling the piers, glued together with adhesive.
Bit of a worry? toilet outlet bored through floor and JOIST!
Pet access into laundry, a flap to be fitted later.
On returning from a weekend in Sydney, the third section of house had arrived and was erected to lockup stage. Total erection time; two and a half days!
An aerial view of the site with the house in place, trench being dug for underground power cables.
Drainage plumbing being assembled under house.
Assorted drainage connections.
House drainage connected septic system.
All guttering downpipes run to this point, ready to connect to rain-water tanks. Runoff being diverted away from house until tanks turn up.
Clearing out the power line trenches.
Underground power coming up under house with UV proof white pipe over underground orange tube.
As seen in the Hangar building site, it rains a lot here!
Walk in robes in spare room with correct size doors.
Walk in robes in master bedroom with wrong size doors?
Master Bedroom walk in robe access? (360m/m)
Sliding cavity door to Master Bedroom with no locking system.
External decking, stair frames, handrails and finishing paint supplied with house.
The view from my 'office'
The pre-installed kitchen.
The external decking was pre-installed, only needing the gaps to be filled.
The water tanks for the house arrive, was lucky, was supposed to wait nearly three months for second tank.
Attempting to wright tank with car, rope broke! Eventually stood up with help from neighbor.
Tanks upright and connected to down-pipe system, only overflow pipes left to be fitted.
The rear 'balcony' during assembly. It's only four foot wide, so couldn't call it a 'deck'.
Hold down chain and garden tap fitted.
Rear deck with hand-railing.
The carpet guys laying carpet and vinyl throughout house. Time, three quarters of a day!
Electrician connecting smoke detectors after doing fans and light switches.
Hand railing and stairs finished. Sub floor skirting fitted.
The 'Front' of the house, actually faces the driveway, not the front of the block.
Cast concrete plinth for the hot water gas bottles.
Rear balcony finished, awaiting painting.
Gas hot water system at 'back' of house near water tanks.
Water pump for house near tanks. Taps above to swap between house tanks and hangar tanks.
First (temporary) phone installation, a fixed base mobile. Didn't work too well.
The removalists turn up from Sydney.
Heather's big kitchen a little bit cluttered!
My office also cluttered.
Part of the lounge room sorted out.
Telstra finally said they would put the phone on, but would only lay it direct to the house unless I supplied the trench in the direction I wanted.
Digging the phone line trench with a hired trencher.
Across the drive to the house for the phone line.
Me filling in the phone line trench a week later.
Overflow pipe from water tanks.
Assembling the clothes line.
Line in use with 'floating' cat and myself watching on. Cat (Friday) sitting on what was to be a bird feeder. Note caps missing from railing posts.....
Railing posts quickly occupied by the local Green Tree Frogs.
Some of the other local wildlife, a Kookaburra and Wallaby.
Wanted some big bookshelves for my office, but were going to cost around $600 each! Decided to make my own, here gluing boards for the sides.
After tapering the sides, shelf supports glued in.
Bookshelf #1 nearing completion with #2 starting in the background.
#1, #2, #3 and so on.....
Four bookshelves! The random shelf spacing was deliberate.
Bookshelves being stained and varnished. Total cost, around $550.
Bookshelf in office.
The office 'mess' (hasn't changed much to date!)
Decided to let more light in the back door via a glass door. Here preparing for paint.
Backdoor painted. (The spots are dust in the flash)
HOME SWEET HOME :) 2008.
"Into every life a little rain must fall" but for THREE WEEKS?!!!
Finally the Sun breaks through!
Weather cleared up enough to take an aerial shot of the property.
Moving some large rocks for Heather's gardens. I borrow the neighbours bobcat a bit!
Starting to turn the 'scrub' into grass. Eventually it will become lawn.
A house number plaque given by one of Heather's work friends.
Bit of a house 'Nick name' made by a brother in law.
Heather settling into her new kitchen.
