Month: March 2020

Monday 23 March – Alert level increased from 2 to 3 and will move to alert level 4 in 48 hours. Level 4 means full lockdown for at least 4 weeks. For us this means working from home as offices are closed, remote learning for Ava as schools are closed, all businesses and public venues closed except for essential services and supermarkets.

Our house build will also be on hold. I managed to get up for one last look on the cold Tuesday morning the day before full lockdown. The builders came up later that day and the next day to tidy up the site and secure everything for the lockdown duration. We were scheduled to have the framing and window walk-through today but that has been postponed. Building resumed for level 3 on Tuesday 28 April.

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We visited over the weekend and the builders were hard at work installing the first floor framing. The house appears big because it’s really long, 21.5m from front to back and narrow to fit on the 32.9m long x 16.9m wide section. 

The entire north side of the house made up of 5 rooms/spaces on both floors with lots of glazing to maximise the natural light and sun. 

Alert level 2 was announced this weekend for Covid. Under level 2 building work can continue however the announcement to move to level 3 and level 4 was to come and this was to be the last weekend of building work for at least 4 weeks.

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Not much happened the week prior except that scaffolding went up around the building. This past week, the joists for the mid floor were delivered and have been installed.

It outlines the first floor quite well as you can see the floor area marked out by the joists where it runs from the stairs across the garage and forward over the living room.

Also interesting is that the framing is no longer pink!

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