These are the bricks that we have saved and put to the back.
These are the bricks still left in the front.
The brickies have now finished and the brickwork looks excellent. The sill bricks are just right and the expansion joints go all the way up and down now. The mortar is all spaced nice and evenly it will now just need to be re coloured.
We still haven't had a final inspection yet and we still don't know when we will be in the house but things at least are still moving.
Last week, after multiple calls to the office, I was finally told that a site clean was going to happen on Thursday. I knew that there was another huge batch of bricks left so I left work early on Wednesday and started moving bricks from the pallets at the front to the stack we had started at the back. This was very hard work with my cheap wheelbarrow and rain and mud. I managed to move about two pallets worth (750 bricks). We now have about 1500 bricks stacked in the backyard.
On Thursday morning whilst I was shopping for our Easter trip away I drove past the house to see the site being cleaned.
I asked what they were going to do with the bricks still left in the front and they planned to leave them. Then our new site supervisor arrived. His first statement after our introductions was do you want to keep all of these bricks. He said they can move them out of the way of the driveway for us if I want. All of that work on Wednesday to save the bricks and they could have done it for me.
Anyway at least the bricks are all ok. Now to bombard the new site supervisor with lots of questions. He had copies of my email queries with him and we went through each and every one.
He called the insulation people to see when the subfloor insulation would go in. They were in the process of scheduling it and it should go in this week. The right toilets need to be delivered, I made sure that he had exactly the right code etc. Unfortunately this means that the plaster behind the toilets will need to be fixed.
We pretty much went through everything and I am now pretty confident that by final inspection all should be good. Unfortunately it looks like final inspection won't be until next week. I'll keep you posted.
Glad to hear the brick work is looking great and you get to keep the extras. That will be handy. You are so close now!
ReplyDeleteDo you have to pay for the bricks? We had to sign a form to say that we would be charged (at builders cost) for the left over bricks. A bit cheeky I think, don't know of anyone else who pays for bricks that are left over. Seeing we do want some for a letterbox, ticked yes.
ReplyDeleteHi Janine, we are not paying for the bricks. We never ticked yes on the form (which I also thought was extremely cheeky). If they want to take the bricks away they will need to pay to have the pallets removed. We are saving them money. It looks like we can have a letterbox, a wood fired pizza oven, paving for 50% of the yard and then maybe even a brick cubby.
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