Tools, Trucks and Tradies

Things are moving so quickly now. We've only had  a few days with no one on site and that was while the slab was curing.

Site cut was on 12th March, form work and piers went in on the 19th March, slab was poured on the 26th March, plumbing on the 31 March and frame commenced on 3rd April. The pace is really moving along much quicker than we expected. The only downside is we have made our first progress payment which means we have to start paying interest on our construction loan.

The pain of the admin process seems to be almost a distant memory, although it has come back to haunt us recently. Due to errors made in our drawings we have had a few mistakes made during construction that, because we can visit our site daily, have been noticed immediately and communicated to our site supervisor.  The first one was an incorrect placement of the pier under the rough in for the air conditioning unit. Somehow Wisdom had reverted to some old drawings which had it in a different place and these were provided to the concretor. It was fixed quickly by placing a new pier in the correct place before slab pour. The plumber cracked a drain pipe badly by driving over it with his own machinery and left it that way. we have been told it will be replaced when they connect all the pipes up. After the first floor frame went up we found they have framed in our fridge space and parts of the frame cover some of the drain pipes because the plumber placed them in the wrong spot. We still have to tell the site supervisor about these mistakes. The fridge space should be easy to fix but not so sure about relocating pipes that are set in concrete.

We also have to install a retaining wall urgently on the boundary with one neighbour as after the plumber excavated they started having subsidence issues along the fence line. My husband had to rig up a temporary structure until we can get the materials delivered to build a permanent one. The site supervisor has given him permission to go on site on the weekend of 12/13th March which clashes with his monthly golf day. Wonder what he'll pick.

First Swim

Pool covered until after construction is finished

Site Cut

Formwork and Piers

 Slab

 

  

 

First Floor Frame