It's been a little over three weeks since my last update and I'm happy to report that we have today reached plate height for our upper floor. Adam has been on site practically every business day barring a couple, diligently working away despite the pretty ordinary weather we've had over the last few weeks. His dad helped out a bit in the first week with the external walls but it's been Adam flying solo since then.
The weekend just gone gave us our first look at all our rooms with most internal walls largely complete, barring a few courses on the wall to our robe, a small nib wall to our void and a wall required to hide some air con ducting (by school drop off this morning, all of those were complete!). Amanda and I spent a little bit of time walking around each room and couldn't be happier with their sizes and the design choices we made.
Probably the only thing I'd change, if I had my time again would be the robes in the kids bedrooms. They are a good width (Imogen's particularly at just over 3m!!) but their depth is a bit awkward at just shy of a metre. They are too deep for non-walk-in style robes but not quite deep enough to make them proper walk in's. I have no doubt a robe company will be able to do some smart designs with their configuration to make them work, but seeing them in person, they were the only thing that made me question our design.
There was a little bit of brick work still to be done on the balcony at this stage but other than that, we're now done with the brickwork for the upper floor. We're hoping that this week's update brings news of our upper floor roof commencement in the near future. We can but hope!
