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Extreme Scaffolding

After a couple months of waiting, the day finally came for scaffolding to be erected. That day was Tuesday Sept 9. Week 13 of my build

Here, you can see the panel of boards they had to put for protection against accidental electrocution. The power company has also put some sort of wrapper insulation around the closest power line. As the power had to be shut off for this work, the tradies had to get all this done by 3pm which was all pretty good timing because around 3:30pm, a mini flash flood and hail swept through Melbourne. 


Here's the scaffolding in all it's glory from the driveway view. This is the most amount of metal I've seen on any Porter Davis build. 

Here's the stairs access for the tradies. You can see there are three levels of stairs.


Here's the laundry side of the house. It looks like they've added some soil here to get the footing leveled. 


Scaffolding took two days to complete. With all the scaffolding finally in place, it's full steam ahead from now on-wards! You can see by the time I went around to take pictures, they had already fully installed all the roof trusses. Lockup should be in a couple of weeks!

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