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Yesterday they managed completely remove the exterior load bearing bathroom wall and build a new one, all in one day. The old external load bearing wall in the bathroom had been cut in half in places and was sitting on the crumbling old concrete floor. It really had to be replaced since it was expected [...]

To be honest I am so emotionally tired right now that I don’t really feel like writing anything, but I am hoping that this will help me to process a bit… On Friday last week, if you recall, we found out that we need to replace the floor in our bathroom. This means gutting the [...]

Our current builder started building under our house to the lockup stage on Monday, July the 9th. He had his crew of three guys working every day of that first week, only taking Sunday off. On Tuesday July the 17th we received the “Compliance Inspection Report” from the Townsville City Council building certifier. The report [...]

The framing on the hallway is now complete. The hallway will be 96cm wide. It’s a compromise between the 90cm that the builder suggested and the 102cm that the architect suggested. There is no actual council regulation for the hallway width, so we went with the compromise of a 96cm wide hallway. Because it is [...]