They guys are still cruising through the job very quickly. Today they finished building what looks like all of the external frames for the house!

Most of the bracing ply looks to up as well, which is good. Some of the days this week the whole house was swaying because they had removed the temporary bracing struts to make way for the wall frames. With the new bracing ply on it should make the house feel much more solid.

The garage is really taking shape so that we can see the size of it, and where the laundry is going to fit. Today Tamara said that we had better not be getting a long car anytime soon, and she is right. There wouldn’t be room for a car over 6m in the garage if we want to still be able to use the laundry. I am still hoping that I have room down the side for some shelves and storage, but like many things right now, time will tell.

We had to go for a few hours without water today as they re-routed some of the temporary plumbing, but there has actually been very little disruption for us as they have been working under there. Well, besides the noise of course…

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These guys are flying through the construction of the external framining. It really makes me wonder what was wrong the our second builder, who look almost a year just to do the front stairs…

Here are the photos from day 2 of the building to lockup. If you want to see bigger versions of the photos you can click on the images and see them on flicker.

The images above are of the left side of the house with the plywood bracing already attached to most of it, and the three room air-conditioners installed. As you can see they have already made a lot of progress from the first day of constructing the external walls.

The image on the left is the framing for the master bedroom external walls.

Caleb really enjoyed showing us around where his new bedroom will be. He told us “this is my new window, and this is my new window, and this is my air-conditioner, and this is my new window…”. He called every opening and gap in the external framing a window, so I hope that he isn’t too disappointed when most of the “windows” get filled in…

During all the planning I have been showing him the plans that we had drawn up and he has gotten pretty good at showing people around under the house. He seems be have really good spacial awareness from what I can tell.

Here is a photo of Jessica sitting in the window opening for her room. There are actually going to be two large windows in each of the kid’s rooms, which will hopefully allow them to be nice and bright and airy.

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