Roof Trusses

Our trusses delivery mostly occurred on Saturday, with the remaining arriving on Monday morning.  Unfortunately Monday was too windy to complete the job, as was Tuesday.  Wednesday saw the crane in action and our home continued to grow!  Exciting to see the shape and size of the rooms.

Truss delivery

Removing a pack of trusses from truck

Trusses stacked on property ready for installation

Crane lowering truss into place

Crane lowering truss into place

Entry hallway with 3000mm truss cut-outs

Living area

Towards kitchen and meals area

Roof shape from rear of house

Roof shape from rear of house

Waste water connection

Quite a big day on site today with the crane for trusses (more on that in the next blog post), as well as SA Water crew to install our waste water connection.

Where did the SA Water man go?  The sewer main was at least 2400mm deep

Lachie in toddler heaven

Framing Update

Most of the framing was completed by end of Thursday.  Jason mentioned the roof trusses would likely be delivered on Friday, ready for lifting with crane on Monday.  They are also waiting on a supply of wall studs for the garage, as there was not sufficient amounts supplied for the job.

My father-in-law and I gave the carpenters a hand to lift the alfresco laminated and solid timber beams into place as they were incredibly heavy!

Framing from front of property - garage still to be framed

Is there a secret doorway between the two bedrooms?

Hallway - all frame work is straight as an arrow!

Alfresco and kitchen/living

Frame from rear of property

Framing

Framing has begun!  Very exciting to see the house start to take shape vertically.  The two guys working on the site seem great and happy to have a chat.  Very happy to see the details discussed with Homestead (including the stud positioning in the WIP for data cabinets) on their radar.

Our oldest son will be excited to see his room is the first one to be built!

Bedroom 4 from rear of house

Still a lot of walls!

Hard at work

Wood delivered

The wood for our frame was delivered today.  The carpenters scheduled to start on the site within the next few days.  The roof trusses are scheduled for 16/Oct.