Wednesday 9 December 2015

Well they started the brick work on the 3rd of Decmber and I got to meet the brickies, really nice guys just the two of them. But what a great job they are doing so far. It might of helped that I rocked up with some Krispy Kremes to keep there mind on the job.<smile>

Straight as a Die

I am really happy with quality and actually the brick colour now
I also managed to take a sneak peak upstairs.


Lounge Room Upstairs
Main Bedroom
Daughter's Room

Son's Room


View from where the balcony will be


Anyway all coming along nicely, I am hoping the brickwork will be halfway complete before they break up for Christmas, either way very happy with the progress so far.


Tuesday 1 December 2015

The bricks have arrived, which is great. However they look so black and not very bronzish. Perhaps with the offwhite mortar it will lighten it up some.

This is what we choose from austral bricks


However what we have gotten looks a little black, so I am not sure, how it will go, I did not see much blue or gray in the colour like above. Also the above picture shows a mix variety of brown and blue, the brick we received seem very similar.




My wife has caught sight of the plumbers the other day running pipes into the wall, this needs to be done before bricking I am told, so I am hoping they will atleast start the bricklaying 2 weeks from now.

Update: Choosing another website I noticed a concerned that infact this is correct we did look at a couple of assigned austral brick houses and one my wife loved might of had two styles of bricks in it.

Here is Austral display, so it much the same is what you see above. it been so long I forgotten much of the colour choices I hope I got it right at the time.