Ground floor walls were completed yesterday. I popped in this morning to check out progress. They're moving really fast with the hempcrete and the wall downstairs, which we're thinking we'll leave as is, looks great.
On Friday the first hempcrete walls went up. Holly took some photos.
Holly just sent these through. The first Hempcrete wall is going in as we speak!
Popped in this morning to check on progress. Formwork for the hempcrete is going in. They should start on the hempcrete on Friday or so. I've booked in a day of leave to help out, cos I'm curious to see how it's done.
Popped into the site today and saw that the frame is getting close to complete. It's great seeing the shapes of the rooms and where the windows will go. It's gonna be so light and airy upstairs, and the rooms feel quite a bit bigger than I expect.
A huge quantity of cannabis got delivered to our house last week. It's the interior (hurd) of the stem from hemp plants, grown somewhere outside Maitland. This will shortly be mixed with lime and water to be made into the Hempcrete walls of our house.
Also, because she's gorgeous, here's a great photo of Ruby from yesterday's trip to the Five Dock festival with grandma.
On this morning's site meeting I got to climb up the ladder and see how the first floor is gonna look. Everything feels bigger than I expected. Downstairs ceilings are higher than I thought, upstairs rooms are nice and big. Very exciting!
Build has slowed down a bit, labourer has been sick so things have slipped a little. Hopefully they can make it up.
Popped in on Saturday to take a look and it's really coming along well. Good progress. Builders have had great weather for it too.
Holly visited site again today and the frame's going up. This is going nice and fast and the weather's been great. Hooray!
Also Louis came first in two events at his school athletics carnival.
Visiting site this morning we got a good look at the concrete. Looks great and the space for our new kitchen and living room is going to feel enormous after the disjointed, poky rooms we had before.
Our building designer has worked up some 3D renderings of the latest detailing. It's getting exciting!
