Verandah post bases - Framing

Dad has been busy preparing the verandah post bases which will support the new verandah on the northern and western sides of the house. It has been a fiddly and big job to get these prepared, but they will provide a really nice, solid looking base to tie in with the character of the newly styled house. 

(Another blog post will follow in the next few days, as the concrete truck came today to fill the formed-up post bases, so there has been more progress today!)

Northern side of the house which will house new verandah

The below photo shows how far the new verandah will extend. The current strip of lawn will become a new garden bed. 

Southern (front) side of house which will house new verandah

You can see the (former) front carport here which will end up being removed to make way for the new front verandah and central front steps. The existing steps you can see on the left of the photo will be removed to allow for the new verandah to extend around the northern side of the house. 

Southern side of house which will house extension

The beautiful established macadamia tree will remain on the front south western corner of the yard. It provides such a lovely shady spot in summer. You can just see some of the branches on the right of this photo. 

Close-up view of corner support for verandah base

Dad has custom-built these timber supports which will each sit above a formed-up concrete base (which was poured today).