Drained

Not much happening whilst our slab is drying, however the external drainage has been completed. 

Looks like our neighbours are at lock up stage this week - we could see their driveway has been done and their site fence removed. Hence why we were able to get onto our block to get a closer look at our concrete!

Fingers crossed frame starts going up next Wednesday as planned. 

Some pics from today below. 

Cx

New Wisdom Homes signage

Porch (L), Office (F), Garage (B)

Theatre

Air conditioning unit gets a little slab too

Alfresco

Bit chipped off the alfresco?

Blind side - kitchen

Can see the step-downs here

Slab Me Silly

Today was a happy and emotional day! It had started to rain and I was dreading the phone call from Wisdom to say the pouring of our slab would be delayed...

Then this. 

Speechless. Excited. Pinch me. 

Stage 2 complete. 

Cx

In Great Form

Yesterday we found that the formwork for our slab has been completed, with a couple of waffle pods to spare.

The porch may need a bit more attention, other than that it was nice to see the reo and waffle pods neatly packed together patiently awaiting their coating of concrete which will hopefully be on its way tomorrow morning...that's if this weather holds out - forecast is rain and my view out the office window right now is looking quite bleak.

Some pics below.

Cx

Plumbed, Piered and Waffled

Our site saw plenty of progress this week, yay!! I've taken some terrible terrible pictures and posted them below.

So this week, the internal plumbing was completed, along with the piering/framing of our soon-to-be slab. 

As you can see in the pictures below, waffle pods and reo have arrived to prepare for said slab. 

SS went on site today and gave us a call this afternoon - we have a schedule for the coming weeks:

Next Wednesday (5th) is slab d-day

Wednesday week (12th) will see external drainage completed

The following Tuesday (18th) we will start to see the frame going up. 

Fingers crossed the weather holds out!!

On another note, we met one of our neighbours tonight as we were visiting site. She was very friendly!

Yay for another week down :)

Cx

Introductions

Mr Milburn got the call from our new site supervisor, Scott, yesterday.

He said that he was nice, straight forward, and that he said it would be "a long job, but a good quality job"! Haha

One thing that has me worried, is that he apparently he has another 25 projects he's working on, which goes against the Wisdom 'Five Star Pledge' which states that their supervisors work a maximum 15 projects in order to give us the best service?

I am worried because that means he will be struggling to divide his time between all his projects (that's a visit of 5 sites per day, per 5 day week on average), not including all the enquiries he must get from each respective customer on a day-to-day basis.

To me, this means we can't rely on the SS to 'supervise' everything, and we will have to make regular trips in to make sure everything is being done properly. I won't start to stress yet but...

Anyway, he said he'll be on-site this Thursday and will contact us every Friday for a commentary on the week that was, and the plan for the week that will be. Looking forward to hearing from him on Friday so we know a little more about when our slab will be poured, and more generally the expected timeframes of our build!

Cx

Builders Signage

Went past the lot today, they've put up the builders signage to end the week. Should have the piering started next week - fingers crossed the weather clears up so our slab isn't delayed!

Happy Australia Day long weekend!

Cx

All Cut Up

Tonight we visited our little piece of land, and again were surprised when we turned the corner into our street and saw that our site has been cut!

We haven't even had contact with our site supervisor yet, but we are seeing little bits of progress weekly. This bit of progress we think is pretty huge, though! Too bad we've missed all the action with the machines though it would have been nice to watch the first dig. 

What's next I wonder?!

Cx

RHS Site cut (sorry about the angle)

LHS driveway - Mr Milburn is knocking on our theoretical front door

A happy Mr Milburn