Slab down

Yahoo the slab is laid.






The concrete lorries deliver to the pump lorry who then pumps it through a long tube onto the steel and insulation












Mike and his gang got going at 6 am to lay the slab and I got there at 7 to take some piccies


















It was a gorgeous morning about -2 at the plot........















By 10 o'clock the slab was done and the 2 shed floors also















Far mountains looking good :-)

Well it's been a very wet May so been held up till this week.

Have managed to get the insulation down and the steel reinforcing grids have been laid on their little castles in readiness for the concrete to form the slab.

















So at 6.30 am Friday the concrete lorries and a big pump to fill this below are booked, fingers crossed :-)

On going electric

So after lots of crimping then application of special shrink wrap we end up with a join like this







Pete then whacked in a couple of posts to hold the temporary meter boxes , after Sam and I had dug out the trench a bit more so we could pull the conduit that surrounded the Telecom cable to enable it to sit tight to the foundations.






Bright and early on Sunday morning Pete and I headed out to finish off the job. here's Pete applying hot air to shrink some more wrap. It was another bright day but a bit of a stiff breeze so we had to huddle close to get the gun to work ...


























And here we are job done, cheers Pete
















On Saturday whilst Pete was doing his bits Sam and I prepared some box work in case there is any concrete left over from the slab pour.This is the one for our wood shed.

Footings and temporary electric

Well after a few delays for weather we've pushed on a bit and by the beginning of this week we had the boxing, for foundations, ready for a builder inspector's inspection which we passed.









On Tuesday we had the footings done and by Friday Mike had filled in with the hardfill . Over the weekend Pete came down to set up the temp electric supply so first of all we had to dig out the cable, good work Sam













Once we got to it Pete cut off the excess and trimmed it down to so he could crimp some ends on to attach it to the smaller cable

Well the footings are coming along nicely and with a fair wind (and not too much rain) the concrete bit will hopefully be going in in the next week or so. Certainly theres a rather large pile of steel and wood etc waiting to be laid. The outline looks incredibly small to us at the moment and its difficult to see that a whole house is in front of us - a lot of folks have reassured us that house building goes through phases of looking big and small - this definately a small phase, but once the framing is up it will look big again.

On another subject A funny thing happened to me this week - I parked in the Christchurch Park car park as I was in to work for just a short shift and couldn't find anywhere for the car !! Unfortunately we had a bit of an emergency at work and it ended up that I was much later than expected and so when I went to collect the car lo and behold it was dark and the car park gates had a big padlock on it.... No getting the car to get home then!! I managed by the kindness of a colleague and a call to Ben to get home - of course thinking that the car would be wearing a fine at the very least and perhaps may have even been towed! (gulp). Imagine my amazement when at 8 am the following morning I had a call from the car park man - ooohhh dear I thought now I am for it!!! He had used the Benzmowing phone number on the side of the car to contact me. I explained what had happened and the guy rather than telling me off said that if this was to happen again to give him a call (he gave me his mobile number) and he would come and let me out! oh and by the way the fine for overnight parking was waived ..... so it is rather refreshing to learn that there are some really good folks out there - thumbs up for the Christchurch Parks Car Park Man :-)