Building Blox: Week 16 – How payments work / Quality control

What we did: Tiling cont. This week the contractors took a break to go set up disabled facilities for a family member’s house, but the sub-contractor roofer and his young apprentice were onsite to continue tiling the front of the Read More …

Building Blox: Week 5 – The complicated client-contractor-surveyor love triangle

What we did: Oversite Drainage layout Bricks finally ordered(!) Lessons in diplomacy and drainage… The tangible nature of property development is a major thing that draws me to it, but construction, at least in the mainstream, is a very labour and Read More …