Concrete piers, temporary power pole and slab reo delivered.
Within two weeks of the start date there is a temporary electricity pole, concrete piers have been poured and some steel re-enforcing has been delivered to site.
A few people I've spoken to say the soil where we live is "suboptimal" (they use a different S word). The engineers must agree, and have specified 41 450mm diameter piers of depths more than a meter.
The site supervisor said the slab would be down about 3 weeks after the start date.
Pipes in
All in order too... no missing wastes for the downstairs shower.
Slab form work started.
A lot of wafflepods. You'd think they were building my house out of Styrofoam!
A hole heap of sand as well... You would never have thought sand would make a good material to put a concrete slab on.
Slab form work ready to go.
Got a call soon after taking this photo from the supervisor telling me the slab would be poured the next day.
Slab done next day.
I turned up in the morning to see them start pouring... Didn't take any photos as I was in a hurry for work. In the afternoon, on the way home, it's done.
It's quite a tall slab. 300mm of waffle pods and 100mm (minimum) of concrete on top of them. My 650 high retaining wall is only 250mm higher than the floor level. You probably can't see in these photos, but the left of the block is higher than it was. Finished ground height on that side will be only slightly lower than the neighbors. Previously there was a brick retaining wall there. It's also probably not clear that we dropped the garage by 300mm. The finished ground height at the garage is slightly higher than the neighbors on the right. Minimal retaining... yay.
The next day, dirt's been pushed up for better drainage. Now it doesn't so it doesn't look so high
Stuff on site
Supervisor says the frames will be up in 9 days. A whole heap of material has bee dropped off. There is a lot there.
I can't fit it all in one picture
My guess is that the frames on the concrete are for the ground floor (they look 2700mm wide). The big pile of frames is for upstairs. There is also various steel beams, (painted the same colour as the frames?) particle board for floors and other bits and pieces.
