Moving along nicely - forming the slab

Last weekend Joe the digger man came and drilled the pier holes at the back corner of the proposed slab. We had to go down to rock, thinking it would not be too far down, considering how much rock we hit at the front of the slab pad.
WRONG! The very corner pier hole went down almost 2 metres! The other two almost as deep. I fear there will be almost 1 cubic metre of concrete  in the holes alone.I took a photo of the deepest one and did a bit of shadow removal to try to show how deep it really is. Joe also spread out and compacted the crusher dust. Four hours work and all up $320.

Yesterday August 17 Neumann’s delivered all the “stuff” for the slab foundation or what ever it is call.

Accessories: tie wire, 20 one way spacers, 120 four way spacers, 70 waffle pods, plastic bag for rubbish off waffles, duck tape and roll of black plastic.

Other: 45 12mm x 6m D bars rods, 9 sheets robmesh D82 standard, 3 bags of bar chairs @ 100/bag. T

Total cost including $120 cartage = $2858.83 ($1500 was for the steel)

The wind was blowing like crazy when the truck arrived and it was quite a job unloading and stacking the pods (light, and made of styrofoam). I don’t know how the driver would have managed if I was not there to help. In the end he put the mesh on top of the pile so that even in the strongest gale it would not blow away. It is amazing how something so light can be so strong. I stood on one to test it and it took me no trouble.

I went into the block early this morning as Steve 1, Steve 2 and the other fellow are working there today. I had taken home all the small stuff yesterday and wanted to deliver it to them so there would not be any holdups. By tomorrow afternoon I expect the formation of the slab will be complete ready for Council inspection next week (yah made it before September 30!). Then all going well the concrete can be poured next weekend weather permitting. Bit worried about the driveway if we get forecasted rain next week, maybe will have to see fellow I know about getting some gravel on it, we’ll see.

Pod spacers and other accessories in Steve’s trailer

The boys sorting themselves out ready to start. Stack of waffle pods on the left of photo

Ready setty go!