Ah well, had a bit of a holiday. The house is still chugging along though -- it doesn't need me there to hold its hand. I've got some new photos though so you can see the progress (in case anyone is still reading -- thanks John). The brickie has started bricking up the front bay. He has also done the piers for the alfresco at the rear, and at least some of the window sills. There's probably only two or three days work left for him now.
They have put steel posts in between the sliding doors and fixed windows at the rear. At first I thought they had replaced the timber posts with steel ones, but the timber posts are still there on the inside. They have put this post here and welded it in place (check out the scorch marks on the window flange) into a shoe which is dyna-bolted to the slab. This is a good thing really, as I was a bit concerned that there was not much strength in this part of the wall -- in particular there was probably nothing attaching it to the slab! I'm still a bit concerned about how exactly they are going to conceal this post and cover the gap between the windows.
Finally, for those who are interested, this is what my grey water outlets look like now, after bricking around. Might need a bit of polyfiller around the pipe to keep the insects out.
Ah well, had a bit of a holiday. The house is still chugging along though -- it doesn't need me there to hold its hand. I've got some new photos though so you can see the progress (in case anyone is still reading -- thanks John). The brickie has started bricking up the front bay. He has also done the piers for the alfresco at the rear, and at least some of the window sills. There's probably only two or three days work left for him now.
They have put steel posts in between the sliding doors and fixed windows at the rear. At first I thought they had replaced the timber posts with steel ones, but the timber posts are still there on the inside. They have put this post here and welded it in place (check out the scorch marks on the window flange) into a shoe which is dyna-bolted to the slab. This is a good thing really, as I was a bit concerned that there was not much strength in this part of the wall -- in particular there was probably nothing attaching it to the slab! I'm still a bit concerned about how exactly they are going to conceal this post and cover the gap between the windows.
Finally, for those who are interested, this is what my grey water outlets look like now, after bricking around. Might need a bit of polyfiller around the pipe to keep the insects out.
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