More walls

Pleasing consistent progress has been made since the last post. As you can see from the piccies, the timber for the wall frames are almost complete, so you can now wander through the different rooms and see where all of the doors and windows go. Speaking of windows and doors, all of the windows and sliding doors have been delivered to site and are folornly waiting to be installed. All of the windows in the house are double glazed, and we hope this will make a big difference to the comfort and performance of the house.

The concrete block room you can see in the photo is the laundry. This has solid masonry walls so it can act as a radiant heat refuge in the event of a bush fire. The bush fire precautions we need to take are extensive- pumps, sprinklers, hoses, tree clearing not to mention the building requirements in terms of materials. The first major stuff up occurred courtesy of concrete block erectors. When we visited the site after they had finished, the proportions just didn't seem right, and we got out the tape measure and checked and yes, some of the wall had been built in the wrong spot. Luckily everyone was in aggreance that it was wrong and it was taken down and put in the right spot. To add to our annoyance on that particular site visit Hugo was quite excited about the large pools of mud caused not by rain but by the tap being left on. This is a bit more inconvenient that a larger than normal water bill because the water for construction is provided by a little tank which has to be filled by water carters... and it was needlessly emptied!

Onto another product- this time the bath. I can't remember which exact model it is, but it looks exactly like this