More Slab Formwork done

Well shows how much I know.

I was told there would be a chance the slab would be poured yesterday, so I went for a drive after work. It was darker than I thought it would be, but no concrete work has been done.

Had a quick look and from the little i could see which wasn't much ... it looks like more work had been done and some termimesh had been wrapped around the drainage pipes, and I thought they were done with prep.

It was way to dark to be walking around a construction site but I snapped a pic from a safe spot with the DSLR but it couldn't even take a photo, the trusty Samsung S5 managed to take one.

Slab Formwork Done

Well the foundation experts mentioned that they would be setting up the form work during the week with the pour expected to happen this week sometime. I drove by on Sunday to have a look and snap alot of photos.

I compared everything to the foundation plans and it looks pretty bang on. I'm impressed with the level of care and detail displayed.

I have seen a lot of nightmare stories from other slab's when formwork was being done, hopefully everything turns out alright.

 

Piering Done ...... 88.3lm ..... circa 90 piers

I received the call last week that piering would soon be done.

Well were told we have a pretty good block with the deepest pier being 1.6m deep and the shortest I think 0.5m, There was no rock but there was some shale in one end.. I thought it was clay.

The piering guys were a bunch of the nicest guys I have had the pleasure of meeting. It looks like Provincial only uses a select few concreter s for foundations as these guys had been working with Provincial for years.

All up we used 88.3lm of piering which was 3.3lm over our tender of 85lm. I was pretty amazed, that the guys at Provincial were so close. Lucky for us I guess.

Fingers crossed there are no hidden charges. I'll find out when I get the first progress payment.

Anyways here are the pictures.

Site Prepared :)

Drove by the block today and didn't expect to see anything done with all the rain we have recently had, but low and behold the site looks like it has been levelled and scraped.

It looks like a lot of fill has been brought in to level the block. Also noticed that the soil is pretty much clay, so hopefully it doesn't pose any issues.

I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Happen to find a neighbour is using the same brick.

Empty for the last time

I thought I would head down, and take one last photo of the empty plot of land before some work begins.

Hopefully when the builder does start to do work, the other builders working on homes around ours will respectfully not drive on or use our land for storage anymore. I did notice that some of the garbage wrappers and things there previously had been removed.