All boxed up and ready for the concrete slab

And finally all boxed up ready for the concrete to be poured. It has been a bit of a rain so this delayed until today.

Well so far so good. No additional cost to any of the work being carried out so far. Hopefully it stays like this until the hand over. Fingers crossed :))

Getting excited for the concrete to be poured soon then frames will be up! :) Woot woot

Looking straight at front door

Looking across to the right facing front door and master suite

Reinforcement steel installed for the two piers at the front

Garage

Close up of garage

Looking towards to front from the back

Looking at the afresco

Looking at the living room and laundry

And so they installed reinforcement steel in those 3 deep holes

Framework for the slab

Indeed, there were some work being done today preparing for the concrete slab:

• Foam boxes delivered
• Reinforcement steel delivered
• Frame work completed

When we saw piles of big foam boxes delivered we wondered what were those for then we went online to do a bit of research and apparently they install those under the reinforcement steel then pour the concrete onto the slab. At this point it is a big hard to tell how big each room but hopefully it isn't too small when the plaster walls are up. 

Reinforcement steel and foam boxes delivered

Size of our backyard. Less garden work whoohooo

Weakness point hence 3 hole drilled

Pretty deep !

Underground work completed

It has been a week since the cut and fill and here we are - all the underground work completed.

The underground work were:

• Plumbing
• Gas connection
• Trenches for footings
• Power box connection

So now the next step would be box up for the concrete slab and up until now we haven't received any indication as to what work going to be done tomorrow or next week. Hopefully, they have something on their schedule for next week.

We took these just before dark so the photos are a bit blurry :(

Sneak peak while the guys doing the work

All underground work completed

Trenches for the two piers at the front of the house

Not too sure why they drilled these 3 holes at the far back right corner but we guess this point may be the weakness point of the block

Temporary fence and bricks delivered

Yep, temporary fence is up pretty much like saying 'Do Not Enter!' (but with no lock). 

We noticed eight pallets of bricks also delivered and they placed it at the far back left corner which is where our mini garden going to be. 

Oh and that ugly temporary site toilet thing also delivered. Don't think I want to be near that!

Temporary fence is up

Eight pallets of bricks delivered

Surveyor and pegs

Today, we drove to our site to see 'the after cut and fill' and surprisingly someone was working on our site on a Saturday!! The guy was a surveyor so he does his mathematical measurement using his surveyor instrument thing to find the edges of the house, spray painted to mark the spot then knocked down the pegs to the ground with his long hammer thing. Anyway, he was happy for us to take some photos so I quickly took some shots includes catching some of his actions (lol). 

We noticed the temporary rocks were placed down where the driveway going to be and new silt fence got put up. Our previous one got damaged by some sub contractors' vehicles of the other builder. They drove over it and parked on our land without our permission!! Our neighbour at the back saw it and advised us at later stage. Some people just don't respect other people's property!

So after seeing 'the after cut and fill' our site level looks fairly high than what we thought it was going to be. It is a good thing at least when it rains all the water will go down and not flood up our garden like my parents house. Just hope we don't flood the neighbour's side lol.

I guess we chose the right land after all :)

Silt fence is up

Survey guy

Surveyor instrument

Survey guy on the job

A flat land!

Cut and Fill Whoohooo!

Past couple weeks it has been fairly quiet. We didn't get any further call from our construction administrator nor the site supervisor for an update or a start date as matter of fact the neighbour on the right sent me a text message advising our builder was doing earthworks!!

Coincidentally, today I had a day off so I drove out to our site to have a look and yes, they were doing cut and fill! Whooooo! I parked in front of our site watching them driving those rolling compactor thing back and forth. Dust flies everywhere though they had the water pipe running I think it only helps to some point (don't think our neighbours were pleased about this. Oppps!). I took some photos and also filmed a short video. I think one of the guy on the truck saw me hope he didn't think I was a spy or anything :))

Rolling compactor

Rear fence installed at last!

Our land require the fence to be installed at the back and on the right and the costs are shared between us and our neighbours.

Plantation Homes advised we can install the fence at the back first but the fence on the right have to wait until our frames goes up. Poor the neighbour on the right he really want the fence to be installed so he can have his 'privacy' lol.

And so between us three neighbours we came to an agreement to do colourbond fence instead of timber fence due to durability and the look but...then a slight dilemma with the neighbour at the back in terms of the colour selection for the fence boarder.

Ok, though there are two different stages to install the fence for us and the neighbour on the right the colour selection must be agreed at the beginning prior to any work commence.

The first stage is to install rear fence and the neighbour on the right can install their side gates at the same time if they wish. Second stage is to install the fence between us and the neighbour on the right (when our frames are up).

So at the very beginning our neighbour on the right suggested the colour for the fence - Terrace (Cream-ish) with Bluestone boarder. We looked at the colour chart the Bluestone doesn't look too bad so we said 'OK go with it' and I guess the neighbour at the back agreed as well. Somehow the order for side gates for the neighbour on the right got ordered and installed first and gladly it did. When it was installed we came to have a look at the colour ....and ummm..... no, we didn't like the Bluestone boarder colour neither does the neighbour at the back. So then we all gathered one night to discuss about the colour selection again. Luckily our sub contractor haven't place the whole order else we would be stuff!

Now, our gathering night was fun - actually NOT. We and the neightbour on the right agreed to do one colour fence which means the fence and boarder going to be the same colour - Terrace - so it is fair for everyone and everyone can have different colour side gate if they wish. It is a fair call but unfortunately our neighbour at the back doesn't think the same and disagrees on the 'all cream colour'. They chose Eclipse (Black) boarder which we and the other neighbour disagrees. So how did we come to an agreement? Well really, we just had to be straight forward to the neighbour at the back - they cannot just think for themselves and ignore other peoples regardless they going to have a long 30m fence. If we cannot come to an agreement then we just going back to square one which is timber fence - no fuss no colour selection required. So after a few minutes discussion amongst themselves they finally agreed to go with same colour fencing. Hallelujah!!!

Once the agreement was made, order was placed and rear fence installed at last :))

From front view

Close up view

Fence bar bolt onto the concrete retaining wall

Between our land and the neighbour on the right

Fence installed all the way to the end with step down on neighbour's side