Sorry it’s been a while since I last posted. My intention was to make a note of every new development as it happened so not only would there be a record of things as they happened but also an approximate timeline for others to see what timeframe the build takes etc.
In any case, since the last post we had holes dug to be filled with concrete that create the piers to support the slab. Once that was done, we had the actual slab pour. The slab in my opinion, based on others I’d seen in the past was good quality workmanship. Not the best of the best but certainly good clean edges and to a degree of quality I was happy with.
My son thought that the plumbing pipes made good drums! 🙂
After that of course there was a delay while the slab cured and also there was the first progress payment to organise from the bank. Without the payment nothing would move forward. There was a bit of fiddling around with that but only because of the public holidays that happened at the same time.
With the payment made our frames were delivered within a couple of days. Then of course we started to get rain in Sydney. At first it was just a little rain followed by a nice day and then more rain the next. The problem was that they were marking the slab for the positioning of the frame and then the rain came and washed it off again. Then of course we have had torrential rain in Sydney over the last few days, you would have seen it on the news.
Finally today we have progressed to the frames going up. Well at least partially. It’s a two storey home, so the site supervisor estimated the time to properly finish framing would be 6 days.
Our New Home (Take 2) 