No news this week, the bricks arrived last week but no progress on the house and the weather was fine all week (so EB can't use that excuse). I think the palette of bricks we received looks good so far, I was worried we would get a dark palette but they look great. The bricks are PGH Sandstock and the colour is Balmoral. The mortar will be raked and off-white in colour; can't wait to see how this looks - gorgeous I hope.
Choosing the bricks was soooo hard, numerous weekends were spent looking at houses to see what the bricks looked like. It was hard to visualise what it would look like just by looking at a wall of bricks, I needed to see a whole house.
Not sure why the window frames are taking so long....we had such a great start with the slab & the frame. The gas has been installed and the plumbing is almost complete.
Started looking at fences this weekend, I think we'll opt for an aluminum slat fence with bricks or concrete piers - all pending on cost of course. Below is photo of the type we'd like - it's open but private at the same time???if that makes sense.
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My goodness hermyleen.....your post feels like deja vu! We are at the same stage. Bricks delivered yesterday, told that windows are late. Also looking at the exact same type of side fence. Though we're concerned that the slats won't provide enough privacy, as the fence will go straight down the side of our secondary boundary - we're on a corner block. Hope the weather clears up for both of us, so the brickwork can start !!!
we're on a corner block too....so we need to fence it too; saw your plans and I see you had some sort of verandah on the side to address the corner block. we put a very tiny pergola area. will upload our house plan. Does the roof go on first or the brick work??
To address the privacy I thought we'd add some hedges later on.
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