Frames and Gutters

One month after the timber was delivered for the frames we have a finished house frame complete with guttering. Starting to get exited now, being able to walk through a actual building instead of a paper design is amazing.

A SLAB walked into a bar.......

WOOT Woooooottt!!

We have a slab, the lads did a great job. Noisy as hell but worked from 6.30am to 7.45pm. From now on it's just sit back and pay the builder, and doing the odd checking as well. Had the first meeting with the SS on Tuesday to review the slab and all is good. The bottom shot shows the outdoor area, it looks small in this photo but it's a good size

Mesh, Mud and Rain

A day after they finished the trenching they started getting the plumbing and mesh all sorted. It appears that my worries with the concrete left by the demo team amounted to nothing and all is looking good. All I need now is for it to stop raining for a few days for the form work to be completed and the slab will be poured. It's amazing how small the house looks when it's at this stage, thank god we had a display home to walk through

Trenches and soil

It's been an interesting week, I've gone from being in control to being out of control and then back in control all with in a few days of each other. However finally we have our trenches finished ready for the plumbing install and then concreting. The demolition company that I used did a shonk job, they failed to remove a sizable piece of concrete approx 400mm below the top surface. Fingers crossed it will be OK as only the kitchen sink drain sits right on top of this area, if it needs to be removed it will cost me $$ and the builder time which we both can't afford. Other than that the job of soil removal and trenching has gone quite well, once the contractors made contact with each other it all went smoothly. Now I just have to pray that it does not rain to heavily this week prior to the concrete pore.

On winters door step

Hey all, well things are happening. Last week we had our sign erected which in turn angered the rain gods as it did not stop all weekend. As an apeasment a dunny was placed on the block which appered to please the rain gods and the rain stopped. Unfortunatly the block was too sodden to walk on let alone drive on so the site prep was delayed by three days. But today we have a level block and by tomorrows end we should have a block ready for footing excavation works. Photo's of said works are few and far between as it's too dark or too wet to capture. There should a clear spot on the weekend to photograph the site works.

GRrrrrr......$$$$

We had been expecting it, hoping they would understand and realise that we had done everything within our power to be on time. But NO, they slapped us with a cost penalty for breaching the 90 day time limit within the contract, $4400 is not a lot in the bigger scheme of things but it does mean we still have to find it from somewhere. Anyway's the site prep guy is rocking up next week to get a start on the block and then a slab will "magically" appear soon afterward. Fingers crossed the rain holds off for a few more weeks.

Green light

What a week it's been, demolition completed and we received development approval. AC demolition did a really good job on our block, they have been snowed under with work lately but they got the job done in the nick of time. Next step is to get the block resurveyed prior to site prep, a slab is not to far away.