External drainage completed

Every weekend we pay a visit to our site and this weekend was no different. The external drainage was completed and we could check them against the downpipe locations on the plans. This was pretty quick!!! We have been told that next week frames should be arriving on site as well. We are all excited to see the frames going up and the house beginning to take shape. Also the soil dumped into neighbouring block during excavation was taken off and poured around the slab.

We met few of our neighbours as well who were also around to see the progress on their homes. A number of houses have started building and street is beginning to take shape as well. 

Slab poured

I was at work today when I got our second invoice which is due once the slab has been poured. I called up the accounts to find out why I got this invoice to which I was told that the slab engineer has confirmed that slab has been poured today. Called up our Site supervisor who also confirmed that the slab has been poured. So we decided to pay a visit to the site in the evening.

During piering there was no fence set up at the site and I had raised this with the SS and this had now been put up. The fence prevented us from going too close to the slab but we were able to make out footprint of the house. The area where the entrance, garage and alfresco will be are slightly less elevated and we could clearly make them out. The footprint of the house didn't look that big and we tried to guess the approximate location of wet areas from the waste stacks that we protruding out from the concrete slab. We spent some time looking around on neighbouring blocks. There was an Eden Brae home behind us who did the excavation and piering before us but there slab had still not been poured.

We noted that some of the soil from excavation for slab had been dropped into neighbour's block. I pointed this out to the SS who said that he had noted this as well and would get this fixed once the external drainage is completed. We will again visit the site on Friday and by that time the external drainage should be completed as well.

Work commences on site

Got our first invoice from Clarendon yesterday which was passed on to the bank for processing. Got a call today morning from the slab engineer that piers would be done today and that the slab would be poured next week. Was not expecting this to happen this fast as our file had only recently been passed on the permits department. Anyways, the piers were done at lunchtime and we were able to visit the site in the evening.

We had been waiting for last 6 months to get to this stage and there it was in front of us. It was really amazing to look at it. We spent some time looking around the site knowing that soon a fence would be set up and we will not be able to roam around freely as we are doing now. 

I am attaching a picture of it here.