Grand Entrance!

Whilst I always admire the minimalistic approach to things - I think we have gone too far with the entrance. Whilst we gained a roof on Friday, we lost the front door and all of the turret. The old stairs are hanging in the breeze. You can see the new footings poured for the framing and also to support the schist stonework. Hopefully by later this week the new entrance should be framed up and it will be looking much improved.

Week Twelve Starts

Work is now ready for the roof. The remaining area of the roof with the exception of over the kitchen, family room and balconies goes on tomorrow and Friday with beautiful weather forecast. The turret was demolished today and footings will be poured for that early next week. That will be the last major structural part to be completed. Progress has been steady this week. The painters arrive tomorrow to get a head start on the external high parts so we can drop the upper level of scaffolding next week and cut the account a little. If you are interested the house colours can be checked on the Resene website. The roof is Ironsand (not a Resene colour) and the other two colours are Wheatfield for the plastered surfaces and Pravda for the weatherboard.

Topless in Takutai!!

This week is starting to see the major changes to the original structure. The roof is now all off, as is the dining room glass area. The new roof lines are starting to become evident. We expect the roof to go on late next week and the painters have been arranged for just over a weeks time so they can do all the upper work around the roof and we can then dismantle the scaffolding down a level.