After yet another wait for labour, we had our first sign of actual construction related movement on the block yesterday. We were meant to get a brickie team a few weeks back but apparently Stannard lost a team to another builder, which threw a spanner in to their scheduling works. Yesterday's update from Sam, our construction coordinator, however, was a little more positive, stating we should expect to see a brick layer on site this week for preparation with construction to commence next week.
True to her word, today Amanda drove past our block and found Adam, a bricklayer assigned to our upper floor, on site. Adam is a solo bricklayer, supported by his Dad, and built another Stannard home one suburb over, so we're familiar with his work. Also, Dean, our design consultant spoke highly of Adam prior to our build commencing, so we know he's a bit of a gun bricklayer and that we're going to get a quality product from him.
Adam got a lot of things prepared during the afternoon, marking out where all the external and internal walls needed to go and getting materials ready for a start in the coming days. He even put up a few things like placing some of our void windows. Hopefully the weather holds out, although there is rain forecast, as we're very much feeling overdue to see some actual construction on our house! Stay tuned.
