House Raising Prep (Day 6-7)
House Raising PrepHad to go into hospital for an angiogram because of a recent discovery of heart disease. No fun, super stressful and of course no progress on site. Took…
House Raising Prep (Day 4)
House Raising PrepAnother day of digging, it's starting to look like a quarry a bit, lota of hammering typical Paddington rock.
House Raising Prep (Day 2)
House Raising Prep (Day 2)Dazz is back into it, cutting more soil and rocks, made some great progress today. Filled up four big tippers which looked like it didn't make…
House Raising Prep (Day 3)
House Raising PrepGot an early call that there were machine breakdowns so no work will be done today,On the positive side, our surveyor has set all surveying pins ready for…
House Raising Prep Starts
House Raising PrepUnexpectedly I got a call from Shane that there was a cancellation of another client's job and that we could get started on cutting the site early. Yes…
Scaffolding
ScaffoldingScaffolding is regulated by the Scaffolding Code of Practice 2021 (see our Reference Materials and Links post).Scaffolding work means: ‘erecting, altering or dismantling a temporary structure that is or has…
Framing
FramingFraming is exactly that, building frames, in our case we used treated pine. Your engineering plans must specify the requirements for framing (e.g. H class, strengths, having double bottom and…
Demolition
DemolitionMust projects involve some sort of demolition whether it be inside and/or outside, unless of course it is an entire new build. Our house required some sort of demotion both…
Architectural (Detailed) Designs
Architectural (Detailed) DesignsEvery project starts with designs. Ours started with scribbles on recycled pieces of paper. We don't call these concept designs, we call them ideas. It visualises how we…