First Floor and Staircase!

This weeks email update from the builder read 'concrete will be poured this week, weather permitting' so we were excited and a bit reserved about going out to the block this weekend.
We were happy to find the concrete for the first floor had been poured-including the staircase!

The staircase design was always a stab in the dark, I knew roughly what I wanted but the builders were limited in what they could show me of my staircase by their design program. From what I can see I am very happy and it looks exactly how I wanted it to and better then the designs were leading me to believe.

This is the view down. We have a balcony going around three sides of the staircase. Quite a view!

The black boards at the top have another 3 steps hidden behind them that go off to the left and right

Here you can see the 3 steps that the black boards currently hide. We are having black, wrought iron look balustrade. 

Floor Form Work Done!

Despite the continual bad weather the form work appears finished. We are due for an update from the client liaison office this week so hopefully that will tell us when the concrete will be poured. Then its a three week wait while it dries before work can continue. It also appears that some of the wiring has been put in.

Surprise Progress

We went out to the block yesterday to show our parents around and were surprised to see that not only had progress been made but there were two guys working out there. At 2:00 on a Saturday! Basically we have had the form workers (to create the floor of the second storey) booked several times, but bad weather has prevented them from doing anything.
We emailed our liaison office on Wednesday, after not hearing anything for two weeks, for her to respond with: we email updates fortnightly we would have got to you today or tomorrow anyway. Well that's great to say because previously we went a month without any contact!  She had said that the people were booked for the day in which she replied but she said bad weather meant that wasn't going to happen.
So that brings us to yesterday when the weather wasn't great and hence our surprise at work having been done.

Through the entry way you can see the mock, wooden staircase that has been put in. It seems to be the same style and size of my future concrete one which doesn't get put in till much later to avoid damage to it. I can't wait to walk in and get a feel for the size but we didn't want to do that while the builders were there.

Back view of the staircase ^