What a difference a day makes!

A lot can happen in one day as I discovered today. Early this morning the plumbers were busy putting in the drain pipes for the laundry, kitchen and bathrooms whilst the dirt was being spread.

By the end of the day the waffle pods and reo were down. The concreter called me this afternoon to advise that everything was ready for an engineer to inspect tomorrow and then weather permitting, the slab will be poured on Monday. He also advised of the amount of piering used, it came in at 39.9 lineal metres which is less than the tender allowance of 60 lineal metres so that's a bonus.

I went by again after work and it looked like there was still a little more to do on the deep edge beam at the front, none of the little hats were under the reo and there were no waffle pods in the laundry and a couple of other places but I imagine that will all be completed tomorrow if an engineer is to certify everything.

Stay tuned.....

Wednesday update

Despite fine weather the last two days nothing happened Monday and only a portion of the safety fence was erected yesterday so I was surprised to find that even though it rained until after lunch today some progress had been made.

More work has been done on the slab frame as well as a load of dirt, steel reinforcing and waffle pods have been delivered.

It's looking very boggy so will have to ensure I put in adequate drainage!

Slab peg out started

Went by the block on Saturday and noticed they had started the slab peg out on Friday. Once they start it usually doesn't take long to complete the slab so hopefully will have a slab by next weekend.

Also got a call from Beaumont Tiles last week wanting to make an appointnment for the tile selections so that's set for the 16th February.

Piers, loo and water too!

Progress this week has been slower than last week with nothing noticeable happening on Tuesday or Wednesday. The siltation control fence has gone in, a portaloo delivered, the water connected and finally today the start of the piering.

The neighbour's house is also making cracking progress after a slow start. They are building with McDonald Jones and there are several of them going up in the area at the moment as well as a couple of Allworths. It's fun watching the progress of all my new neighbours houses.

Earth works finished

Went for a visit after dinner to see where they got to today. Looks like all the earth works are finished. I can't believe how high the front of the house will be off the street, I couldn't visualise it before they started.

All level now

Went by the block after work and found a guy busy levelling the ground. Whoo hoo, I guess you can say it's now finally under way!


This lot was taken between 4:30PM and 5:30PM on the 27/01/09









These were taken around 8:00PM. No I didn't hang around all that time. Was hungry so went home for dinner then came back.






They certainly cut deeper than expected so will definitely need a retaining wall of some sort at top and bottom.

New toy...

I bought a new camera a couple of weeks ago and have been playing around with the photo stitching software that came with it.

The first is a 180 degree panorama taken from the rear of the block and is made up of 23 individual images all stiched together.



The second is taken from the other back corner of the block and is made up of 4 shots stiched together.