All bricked up!!

The house is officially had all bricks laid!!  They finished off the last column yesterday morning and all the other odd bricks for the sills.  The wool insulation for the ceiling and walls is in and they started to gib up too!  It is looking and feeling very cosy and warm inside now.  The kitchen is being installation date has been moved again to the 5th of July.  But now other than subbies not doing things in time we will be now on track as all major works are inside and protected from the elements.

The columns out the back under the portico remained the same.  As the brick laying boss was just so unhelpful and didn't explain options at all he failed to say that the columns as they are were the only option unless we dug the footings out again and redid them which incurs a amendment to the permit which means more money and holdups with the permit going back to council.  Plus it would require the engineer to redo the equations which is again wasted money and time.  At the end of the day we would have not achieved a thinner longer column as for the bond of the bricks we had to have them 2 wide because of the bricks being 70's series.  The columns I had seen were 90's series brick on an aussie blog were 1 1/2 wide. 

They do look loads better now they are up and finished.  It did annoy me that they just went in and did it without asking the suckers who are paying for it!  Once it had been explained by Joe and a calmer brickie I was happier to just suck it up and let them finish the job.

Well without ado here are the finished bricks...albeit the mortar and bricks are still wet in places and look patchy and need to have a wash down in a few weeks.  Ohhh and check out the down pipes going in!