Progress indeed. Mid January saw the boys helping out with house site preparations.
We headed off to Golden Bay on the annual pilgrimige ( brilliant weather this year!) with some trepidations as the slab was due to be poured in the first week of our holiday and the frames erected during the decond week. Texts from home kept us up to date while co-ordinating heating and building teams saw some delays. In the event we returned to a nicely curing slab and were here to see frames erected.
It is an extroadinary process that seems to hobble together skilled processes with error management. It has been observed that if medics managed patients the way builders erect building tribunals would be very busy but somehow it seems to come together. Not much is irrevocable or as the builders quip “everything is fixable”. Two builders down to health matters saw a new man on the job and with only one frame put up back to front the skeleton was erected relatively quickly.
The build is about two weeks behind schedule but there is the potential to pick up time on the window order.
Murray and I have been doing our valiant best to make final decisions and after a few days researching tabs, basins , tiles and wooden flooring we think we may be getting to th point where the thing starts to gel…. nearly…
