Monday 28 January 2013

January 2013

We have progress! So far this month the earth movers have completed all the sand pads for the 2nd stage of our house build. The retaining wall was finished last week, a limestone retaining wall that runs along the side of the pool. The Coogee Contracting guys did the best job, very neat so we were really happy with that! At the same time our brickwork for the chimney was completed in the games room which looks good as that room is starting to take shape. So the last three weeks have been chaotic with alot of tradesmen working around each other! The Geo thermal pump also arrived last week.

This week we have been working hard digging in half of the trenches for the footings so we can move along to save some time, the concrete guys were here today and finished them off which is great so hopefully by next week some walls can start to go up!

Tomorrow will be busy with Marcos, John and their boys doing the plumbing pre-lay and the others.... one compacting footings, one testing the compaction and concrete guys back to put the steel bars into the footings after that if all goes well!






Preparing for Second Stage

January 2012

So after 6 weeks of waiting for the earth movers to arrive, they are finally here! Very happy to have something happening now and it has been very busy the last ten days...

Sand pads for the main house slabs are getting brought up to level and compacted.



The Fire place and Chimney is getting bricked up..



Thursday 17 January 2013

November 2012

In the past few months progress has been slow. Last November the suspended slab was formed up, then we ran the pipework for the floor heating in the games room, a few very stressful days and late nights working by spotlight to prepare for the concrete to be poured. Definitely a few grey hairs for us both that day!!


The concrete getting pumped up to the suspended slab....


Games room floor getting poured......