Category:Construction Stage

Today the waffle slab was laid out and we had it inspected. There were a few things to be fixed, but nothing major.

Nothing much to describe, just that the materials have arrived in preparation for the slab.

Checked out the site today… it’s been flattened and cleaned and I can see the concrete piers level with the ground. There are pipes coming out of the ground, some with blue on top and others with yellow. I have no idea what that means. Here are a few photos. The site looks pretty nice …
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The mud pile has been removed… now you can see where the garage is going to be. That said though, it’s been raining constantly so there are lots of puddles around. I walked onto the site and it is extremely slippery. Wonder how they’re going to do build the slab on mud. Hopefully we’ll see …
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Don’t know what the process is called, but the site has been flattened. Can’t see the piers anymore but can at least see the outline of the house. I think the next step is the slab, which they say should be finished next week. Here are a few photos.

Visited the house again 2 days ago and again today. Piers are complete, got the report from the building inspector after their inspection of the piers. Said that there were 62 piers, all of which were up to 3m deep. Some were shallower than that, but they hit rock, so can’t go any deeper. Guess …
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My site supervisor gave me a call a couple of days ago to introduce himself. He sounds like a nice guy, he told me about the plans for the site and that we should hopefully have a slab down by the end of the month. I have indicated to him that I have engaged a …
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I previously bought fencing for about $550 to put up after demolition. The cost was a mixture of 6 new panels and 6 second hand panels and 7 concrete bases. PD had requested that I remove the temporary fencing because they want to put up their own fencing. So I removed them 2 days ago. …
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