Granny Flat or Birdland Becomes a Reality

 After at least two years of pondering, working out what we really want, planning and approvals, building has commenced on a granny flat - or officially known as a secondary residence in our backyard. We refer to our granny flat as Birdland. Initially it will be Bill's man cave for him and the macaws. I can tell you it can be rather challenging living with macaws in your kitchen/family room so that has been the driving force behind this project. Ultimately it will become a place for Amy to live. It is a one bedroom, one bathroom, kitchen and living space. It will be connected to the main house with a covered walkway and outdoor area which will be meshed in so can serve as an outdoor aviary  for the birds.

Our builder is the same person who built the house ( we met her a number of years after we brought the house) she also did our extension in 2009 and now is doing the granny flat, that is quite a story in itself.

We spent the beginning of October getting trees and shrubs removed and cleared, waiting for the final approval to come through. Things really started happening the last week of October.

This was our backyard before it started but with all the shrubs along the back fence cut down and cleared away.

 Week 1 Surveyor comes and puts out the necessary markings and posts.

Costa the bob cat driver comes along and works his magic

 

Costa has finished after and hour and a half

Surveyor comes back for some more accurate marking out and checking levels

Luna checking out the bedroom

Week 2 Drainer comes in with his excavator to dig trenches for water, sewerage, stormwater, electricity and data. Big mess in our front drive!

 Plumber and sparky (aka Lachlan ) get to work doing their prelimary stuff

Trenches are filled in

Supplies arrive for the concrete slab

Week 3 Concrete tradies arrive along with Costa to get the preparations done to lay the slab

Deb the builder gets her hands dirty!

The slab is ready to be poured

Concrete pumper and concrete truck arrive

Slab is poured

Amy testing out the slab

Week 4 Carpenters come and put up trussess, frames and windows