And we are POURING!

Waking up at 6am and going out to site to watch the pour can be exciting! Except when the pour has been delayed by another 1.5hrs! Not 7am now, rather 8.30am!
Tingmore structures was able to come out to assist with the pouring process. The foreman commented that not many structural engineers come out on site and that they should do more often! Thumbs up for Tingmore structures for sending someone out!
He's been on the concrete board of Victoria and he has worked on countless commercial projects. "Today is a perfect day for this pour" - Tingmore

The chairs have been finalised. 
Steel re-enforcements have been placed in right places and the membrane fixed! Procon, you're doing an excellent job!

Concrete will be poured and slab will be levelled and I'll have a slab by 5pm today!

Here are some of the photos from the morning:

Trucks arriving at 8.30am SHARP
Pump came earlier, 7.30am

Pouring commences

"this garage is HUGE" - Tradie

A relatively busy site

More updates later in the evening..

Final Inspect Photo 

Final Inspect Photo - looking at rear

Final Inspect Photo- Looking at Garage

Final Inspect Photo

Looking to front from rear

Garage wall

Garage wall

Master Ensuite 

Soaker Tub Ensuite

Soaker Tub Ensuite Outlet

Box Box Boxing

Monday morning! Beautiful day today! 
Guess what, theres activity!

Final Inspect has managed to get in contact with our SS and found out that Procon is doing our whole concrete job. He has managed to find out who will be in charge at site for the concrete pour and set a time to meet them later in the afternoon. 

I managed to have a chat with the concreting tradies as I was dropping my children off at school and it appears that Procon cannot box up the garage area as our neighbour's fence is in the way. He's advised that it needs to come down before any boxing can start around that area. His supervisor Matt is on it and hopefully they can finish their task by late arvo, or else the pour will be pushed back again.

3.15pm

Got a call from our SS, and he's advised that Procon was NOT able to finish their work today. They will have to come back again tomorrow and push the concrete pour to Wednesday! 

Final Inspect has also rescheduled his appointment to meet these concrete guys tomorrow at 12pm.

Garage side engineering Retainer wall.
As you can see, right above it, our neighbour's
fence has been removed.

I went out to site to have a look at their work and realised that some of the pipe (could be drainage) are not within the boundary of the slab. Pink pipes are downpipes and they will be on the exterior of the slab box, but there was a single pipe which was outside of the slab. I believe it could be the ensuite bath's outlet.

Pipe with the pink ring around it is OUTSIDE of the slab. 

Confirmed Site Start, Electrical Box, Retainer walls

27th July - 2nd Soil and Survey Ordered

 7th August 12 - Establishment Surveying

Managed to have a chat with the bloke doing the survey and mentioned that PD was rushing their company to get it done! - Means site start will be soon!!

13th August 12 - Final Construction Drawings Signed!

Click on the link above to view drawing
PM me if you would like to view more details.

We had to request for a Building Variation to have our taps mounted under our laundry sink as oppose to having it on the wall above the sink. That way we can have the Drier stacked on top of our front loader washing machine, and no pipes will be exposed! WIN!

Also, we managed to get a credit back for our S-flashing pipe on the side of our garage wall as we were able to have it run down the rear of the garage. (S-flashing is usually used when the property is right up against the neighbouring property and in order not to cross the boundary, this method of flashing is used)

14th August 12 - Confirmed Site Start!

23rd August Site Start

10th Sept Concrete Pour

16th August 12 - Port-a-Loo/Rubbish cage Delivered

23rd August 12 - Scraping begins

24th August 12 - More earth works & Stakes put in

28th August 12 - Retainer walls put in 

30th August 12 - Electrical Box put in