All ready for the roof-beams

The big east wall - all bedrooms and bathrooms to catch the morning sun. The wooden "barge boards" are just temporary patterns used to check the ICFs are to the right shape and height.  Hopefully they will be reused as rafters.   

Front view - garage with sitting room over on the right, front door in the middle behind the builders sign.

..and from the back

Some rather surreal (unfinished) walls.  You can see the shape of the south sloping roof where the solar panels will go on the right of the big photo.

The specially made padstone sits on top of the dense-block walls where the four steel beams that form the ridges, the valley and the hip of the main roof will be come together.

The lower roof will have timber gluelam beams instead of steel. It looks like butcher's block and they will remain exposed to the sitting room below. I'm  hoping to stain and wax them before they are lifted and  just have to touch them up in situ if I'm lucky.  I'd like a sofa swing - the engineer says definitely not a problem with these beams, they weigh 150kg each. Will we need a crane to lift all this? Wait and see.