My Porter Davis Build Blog

Lockup happened over a week ago Friday 26th September - Week 15 of my build! Everything's moving faster than I can blog, which is a good problem to have! Ever since the scaffolding went up a month ago, there's been 6 to 10 guys working furiously on site, sometimes even on weekends! Here it is fully bricked up, roof, eaves, windows and doors

My framing started Friday July 4th. I thought this was way too soon since my slab was only poured on Tuesday! Turned out though that it only meant my frames were delivered on that day Then they spent a couple of days marking lines out on the slab. It wasn't until Tuesday 8th July that they actually started laying the frames on - a whole week after slab pour. That's about as much gap between pour and frame that I could have hoped for from a volume builder.  Within 3 days, my whole first floor was practically done! By Friday 18th July, the second storey was almost complete. The Roof trusses would be done on Monday and that would complete the frame stage... Monday came and went and no work was done. Tuesday came and went and no one was on site. What happened was that the OH&S guys put a stop to work on the second storey as they were working too close to power lines... Oops! Here's a pic of the issue: The scaffolding and platform to ...