Building works begin again in the week before the Australia Day weekend and continue the following week, when it isn't ridiculously hot. By the time we return from Tasmania on Thurs 30 January, they have finished our framing, constructing the bit that joins the old roof to the new. They were unable to do this in December because it kept raining and they have to expose a bit of the bathroom ceiling - needless to say no one is concerned about rain at the moment, although they have tied a tarp over the exposed section. The shots below show what the end of the room will look like.
You can also see that our house is now being used as a storage area and sawbench for the work that is now happening next door - framing up on our neighbour's property is now mostly done as well. We're not sure what's next - perhaps the roof?
Completion of the framing up meant that the last window measurements have been made (the rather cute little triangle near the roof in the picture above will be a window one day), so we had to stop dithering and choose the colour for the window frames. We just hope that "Evening haze" looks OK when we see it in much larger quantities than a 60x20mm sample chip.
