Thursday saw the sweeping gang arrive to smooth out the site with a bobcat and then with brooms. They then laid a screed over the entire site in preparation for the slab.
On Friday we saw all of the waffle foam, the steel rio and all of the shoes arrive. The truckie initially baulked at putting the load down the driveway (becoming a common concern - but more on that another day!) however after coming back from the pool, we noticed that the load had been successfully dumped inside the block.
Back to work Monday for me and the first really BIG day for the house! Teams of tradies arrived to start remarking out the slab, laying black plastic, boxing it up with timber and then waffles and rio. By the time I got home, it was a site to behold!
This morning (Tuesday), a shade before six o'clock (try 5:40am) the concrete pumper arrived to set up. I left for work and a little before 7am, they started pouring. After 7 loads Donna gave up counting, however by this stage they had only done the verandah foundations about 1 fifth of the house slab.
The concrete delivery was a finely tuned process as one trucked emptied the next one on the street pulled into position, no sooner had that occurred that the next truck parked out the front of the house.
Again, by the time I got home, all the work had been done. I looks amazing! It is still hard to imagine living in this space - as huge as it looks, some parts look overly small without walls and doors to partition the spaces.
Apparently, the frame arrives tomorrow and should start going up on Thursday. Only thing stopping this will the threat of massive amounts of rain of the coming week (what's with the 3rd week of January in Brisbane??).
The concrete truck line up
7 truck loads in!
2 trucks later!
The finished product!
From the top of the driveway
From where the verandah will be
From the future driveway
