Saturday, May 21, 2011
The slab is in yahoo !!!
Been a few hold ups with the weather and the issue with the Slab foundations and the re-engineering.
Anyway on my way to work i noticed a whole heap of Rebar mesh getting delivered Tuesday ( 17/05 ), thought, "you Beauty the slabs going in this week!!", on my way home noticed that nothing had been done.. ;-( found out later that this day was the day they put in all the Termite protection for the house.. ? don't ask, i have no idea why they would do that at this stage.. i thought the old white ant was partial to Wood .. not concrete :-) LOL, we'll leave that to the experts..
Hats of to the Conctrete / slab formers though, apparantly from Good authority ( Nancy at 73 ) they arrived at 6:45am , and when i drove buy after work ( 5:45pm ) they were still there, i counted about 12 of them..
They were obviously on a mission to get the slab in before the weekend and make the most of this great weather we're having..
This Friday 20/05, Odile, Matthew and Jarrod T ( they had a School Closure day ) walked round to have a look, these are from Nancy's drive.
Anyway on my way to work i noticed a whole heap of Rebar mesh getting delivered Tuesday ( 17/05 ), thought, "you Beauty the slabs going in this week!!", on my way home noticed that nothing had been done.. ;-( found out later that this day was the day they put in all the Termite protection for the house.. ? don't ask, i have no idea why they would do that at this stage.. i thought the old white ant was partial to Wood .. not concrete :-) LOL, we'll leave that to the experts..
Hats of to the Conctrete / slab formers though, apparantly from Good authority ( Nancy at 73 ) they arrived at 6:45am , and when i drove buy after work ( 5:45pm ) they were still there, i counted about 12 of them..
They were obviously on a mission to get the slab in before the weekend and make the most of this great weather we're having..
This Friday 20/05, Odile, Matthew and Jarrod T ( they had a School Closure day ) walked round to have a look, these are from Nancy's drive.
Bit of a Costly Problem
9/05/2011
Well everything is just humming along, the guys are on the block trenching out all the foundations.
I get a call from Henley mid afternoon telling me i have to visit and meet with the construction mgr, as they had found a septic tank !!!! and that would be a problem.. No shit ?? ( sorry bout the pun )
What the..?? Firstly the house is not that old and surely there would have been a record of the sewerage being put onto the mains easement.. from a Tank.
Turns out there was a mix up from the Foundation contractors office to Henley, the contractors had been on a couple of Jobs for Henley that had turned up issues, 1 was a septic tank and the other was Soil soft spots.
Ours had turned up soft spots.. these " soft spots " are areas that have been Filled with Foreign material when the original house was built, these imported fills were brought in to make up levels.
There was Soft loamy soil, clay.. bricks etc etc.. basically this all has to be Excavated out until they find descent foundation earth.
Cut a long story short,they had to pump in about 18m3 of concrete ( 3 trucks worth ) what with the Concrete cost, removal of the soil, extra time for operaters , re -engineering for the foundations.. we'll be up for about 5 grand....
Below shows the extra depth and width! , this was one part only , there were quite a few areas this deep..
Reckon we could build a 6 story on this now..???
Well everything is just humming along, the guys are on the block trenching out all the foundations.
I get a call from Henley mid afternoon telling me i have to visit and meet with the construction mgr, as they had found a septic tank !!!! and that would be a problem.. No shit ?? ( sorry bout the pun )
What the..?? Firstly the house is not that old and surely there would have been a record of the sewerage being put onto the mains easement.. from a Tank.
Turns out there was a mix up from the Foundation contractors office to Henley, the contractors had been on a couple of Jobs for Henley that had turned up issues, 1 was a septic tank and the other was Soil soft spots.
Ours had turned up soft spots.. these " soft spots " are areas that have been Filled with Foreign material when the original house was built, these imported fills were brought in to make up levels.
There was Soft loamy soil, clay.. bricks etc etc.. basically this all has to be Excavated out until they find descent foundation earth.
Cut a long story short,they had to pump in about 18m3 of concrete ( 3 trucks worth ) what with the Concrete cost, removal of the soil, extra time for operaters , re -engineering for the foundations.. we'll be up for about 5 grand....
Below shows the extra depth and width! , this was one part only , there were quite a few areas this deep..
Reckon we could build a 6 story on this now..???
We have a Dunny ,fence and Pipes!!
Still behind with Posting
The dunny arrived 20/04 and the pipes were done about the 6th of May.
The Pipes were Dug in about a week later 26/04.
Then the Barriers went up..
We have Ducks !!!
Bit behind with the posting, we caught these ducks having a bit of a dip after a downpour.. this would have been approx 14/04
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