And again

Here's Ben screwing the roof onto the joists

Ben  and Deborah worked hard all weekend, and we got most of the roofing up

Ben did a great job and worked out the heights etc for each beam- spot on

Benny came this weekend and together we put the verandah posts and beams on

called it quits for a weekend and had a deserved break-until next weekend

bit of plastic to stop rain etc getting in amongst the insulation

roofing- colourbond

Some fibrosheeting

Starting to take form

Deboarh and I then put the roofing insulation on.

Now the insulation- Deborah came up and wrapped the house in the foil insulation- and we may have put it the wrong way around- but it works a treat

Added the cross bracing

luckily as the windows were in we could open them when it became too hot

The sky starts to clear up...now

utilising the full footprint of the concrete

All in a days work for Ben

Ben helped put the windows in place before departing back to melbourne

Ben thought no-one would ever believe he helped make it, so he posed for a pick

The original "holy" water tank

In one day we got most of the external and roofing frame up

As luck would have it he was having the day off on an ADO and he came to the rescue

It was friday, and i was way behind schedule, so i phoned my mate Ben

Starting to take shape- thanks for the loan of the wonder ladder John

Some braces to hold the frames up! Thanks to Travis and Neville from Mitre 10 in lifting the first frame

More frames taking place- i used my circular saw and an inverter and generator for power

good arsenic covered wood- termites hate

It  was raining but i started on the frames. Thanks to Mick for the loan of his nailing gun

The insulation and fibro cement sheeting arrived

The wood arrived! notice the salami smoke ghouse and greenhouse still standing

Second windows fro the heathcote 2nd hand building supplier

The black soot from the fire was well etched into the concrete

The original concrete slabs, which once held two sheds. These sheds burned down months prior to our seeing the land.  We had to remove the tin and frame work to start from tabula rasa.

this was one of the two tin sheds we had to pull down (they burned in a fire)