Concrete Progress Report

The original plan to pour the concrete pads for the house and shed on Wednesday 29th of October went out the window due to a shortage of concrete.  Apparently a major shopping center development had the local concrete plants fully booked out this week so the concrete is booked for Monday morning 3rd of November.

Laying the sewer pipes

Monday was spent doing the pre-lay with my old mate Dave the plumber.  Lots of laughs and reminiscing about old time(dune buggies we had built, gear boxes we had destroyed) but not a second wasted.  Dave is the hardest worker I have ever known and if you are going to do a job with him then it's just expected that you will go hard to.  I spent my Uni years working for Dave as a labourer (shovel boy) digging trenches for storm water pipe installs and it was all done by hand.  Dave instilled in me the ethic for hard work (along with my father and my grandfather).  Work hard and reap the rewards.  Thankfully I had the mini excavator on site though as that was one of the hardest, most well compacted sand pads I have ever come across and we wouldn't have finished in a day without it.  Even with the excavator there we still spent plenty of time on the shovels and I slept well on Monday night.  I must say this building process is having a positive effect on my waste line.

Later in the week I played plumber myself setting up a pressure pump and running pipes to put a tap up near the house.  Having a tap with running water after 9 months is seriously cool.

So you turn the tap on and water comes out. What is this strange alchemy?

So as of this blog post the footings are dug, plastic laid, reinforcing steel is in and all we need now is some concrete. The shed pad is leveled and also awaiting concrete.  The rest of the weekend will be spent on the brush cutter, mowing the weeds as we are coming into summer and bush fire season.

House Pad Awaiting concrete