Re: Building in Aveley - Living, one year on...

The weather is playing games with us! Hope you get your slab poured soon....when the rain stops (well at least the farmers are happy...). When your slab goes down, it is a different feeling

Soooo that was absolutely no work done in the days after the Easter break as far as we could see.

We did however, initiate the purchase of some furniture for the new home (when it's built)...we bought some of these sometime ago and are slowly accumulating bits and pieces for when we are ready to move in:

House number - in Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition Font format:

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Dining chairs:

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Alfresco chairs:

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Breakfast bench stools/barstools:

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Lamp for Living Room behind sofa:

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Hoping for sunny days next week so that the brickies can continue!

Thanks! No they were off an ebay site which was cheaper then...I will find the link and PM you

JnM, have PM you!



Thanks trixee, we are slowing adding to the furniture collection

Bricks Issue

The wife brought this to my attention today. The bricks below the full height windows in the dining did not seem to be laid consistently, the photo below hopefully shows what we mean. It's hard to capture it on photo so I've highlighted the area in the 2nd pic:

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The bricks in the area indicated by the arrow seems to have been pushed in while being laid,if you know what I mean.

SS has been informed and hopefully we can get the issue resolved.

Hi Hootie, just read through your thread. Loving your plan and your selections are gorgeous! Cant wait to see it all take shape

I've edited my previous post because we had a discussion with the SS and clarifications have been made.

Apparently the no show for the last 2 days was due to the brickies being pulled off for another job, which I understand is the norm. I guess that we will not be informed each time the brickies are pulled off to another job....

Yes there is a delay in the removal of the boundary fence to build the boundary garage wall and this is due to the various delays in the schedule, weather or otherwise.

We have been assured that the bricks would be completed on schedule.

I discussed with my wife if she was happy with the level of communication we had so far and she said she was. Well, if she's happy, then I'm happy!

[I have edited the previous reply as we have our own reasons]

After chatting with the SS on site, we have regained confidence that the build will be on schedule.

He was very willing to look into the bricks issue below the dining room windows for us.

Being first time building, we might naturally "over-worry", so we are not trying to go with the flow

We do understand that everyone is busy and a quick reply or acknowledgement of our query would have sufficed.

Onward and forward!

Poooooooo! Nothing worse than tools down and poor / non-existent communication.

I hope you hear back from the SS today - nothing worse than rocking up to site like no mates mcgee waiting for someone that isn't going to show.

On a similar note, we're about to raise the following with our SS - looks as though fully supporting the sliding door wasn't all that important:

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You could just carry a red arrow around with you and place it in the photograph

Update: Bricks (Day 7) - 15 April 2015

Brickies returned to work onsite today! The first full day of brickwork resumed since Easter. We are pleased. The kids were so pleased that they bought some can drinks to give to the brickies.

Went back this afternoon to find they had completed some internal bricking and my daughter squealed in delight when she found that the walls in her bedroom were up!:

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She is absolutely in love with the highlight window in her room! I'm glad we added that towards the end of the working drawings stage:

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So we have the first room in the future house! We consider this a milestone . From left to right - bathroom door frame, daughter's bedroon door frame, master bedroom door frame:
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Let's hope the tempo picks up and we can't wait to see what they will complete by the end of the week.

I should also mention that we feel that meeting with the SS at this stage of our build had its advantages. While the meeting was called to address the bricks below the dining room window issue, it was great to place a face to the name. After the meeting, we also felt more reassured that the schedule would be met. We also got to chat with several of the brickies, which was great.

Woohoo! So good to have the brickies back for both of us! It's looking like we're neck and neck, race you to the finish!