Pre-Slab Excavation and Plumbing setout

After weeks and weeks of bad weather and rain, finally weather appears to be giving us a break and Concretors determined take advantage of the coming week of dry weather to lay our Slab. 

Therefore, Plumber arrives to set out and excavate under slab pipework for Bathroom, Powder Room, Ensuite, Pantry, Kitchen, Laundry & Alfresco.

It was freezing cold and foggy up until mid morning, but the work continues.

Freezing cold and Dense Fog .... gorgeous!

Hit Rock ... a large boulder smoking up the digger 

Lots of Basalt Rocks to be found underground 

Spreading out some more finer crushed rock for the driveway to stop the bogginess for our vehicles

Trenching for our Ensuite Bath, Shower, Vanity,  Toilet & going through to the Powder Room Vanity and Toilet

Positioning a bed of Rock for beneath the pipework

Fog is still hanging around

Bobcat covering trenches

Rylock Double Glazed Windows Ordered and Colour Selection finalised

Today, we placed our Window order. Rylock Double Glazed Windows and Sliding Doors in Colorbond Ironstone colour.

Windows will take about 6 weeks.

Here is our external colour scheme for the new home.

Walls: Bluestone Masonry Blocks, Smooth with Splitface Corners in Front
Windows: Rylock Ironstone Double Glazed with Grey Tint
Roof: Colorbond Corrugated Iron in Shale Grey 
Portico Facade: DecoWood Jarrah
Garage Doors: DecoWood Jarrah
Fascia: Colorbond Ironstone
Quad Gutters: Colorbond Ironstone
90mm Round Downpipes: Colorbond Ironstone

Fire Wood Shed Slab

Firewood Wood Shed Slab Pour

Our Wrought Iron Front Entrance Door Design

Just for something a little different, we have decided to forgo the Pivot Door originally desired and go for a Charcoal Coloured Iron Front Door. 

We have designed it and after having it drawn up properly have ordered it. Takes 12 to 14 weeks to be manufactured and delivered.

Our Design Sketch .... we're no artists!

A proper CAD drawing prior to ordering

Building a Fire Wood Shed

Setting up formwork, reo and saddles for slab pour of our Fire Wood Shed

Widening of Boundary Crossover & Site Cut

Had a months worth of issues with the Postal Contractor. In rural areas, the mail and/or parcels are delivered via Motor Vehicle unlike suburban areas where they are delivered by Motorbike.

The day following our commissioning of our new Tree Trunk Letterbox, which you would have noticed is positioned on the left of our Crossover and Driveway, a dispute was started by a disgruntled Postal Contractor. She refused to deliver our mail, stating that according to Australia Post, we "must" have our letterbox on the Right side of the Crossover, not the left, must have a street number, not a Lot number, and the property must contain a residence, not an empty parcel of land.

To cut a long story short, we were right and she was wrong.

Australia Post confirmed that any property with a Letterbox must be delivered to regardless of whether a dwelling exists or not.

Our reason for setting up our Letterbox on the Left hand side of the crossover was simply because we had a water mains on the Right side and due to the weight and size of the structure, we were unable to position it there.

We were at no time trying to make life difficult for anyone. 

We widened our crossover to assist the many future heavy vehicles and machinery to gain easier access to our property for delivery of materials and this also enabled the Postal Contractors Motor vehicle to swing in and exit easily when delivering our mail.

All has been resolved and now we are receiving mail, mainly Bills and Invoices.

The Excavator Contractor also did a site cut, levelled out and moved rocks in the location of our future Slab.

Lined a South Facing Shed Wall

It's now a mad rush to get the Man Shed ready as our Home settles in 8 days.

Decided to insulate and plaster yet another wall to help retain heat over the coming Winter months.

Wall almost ready for painting

 This is our wood heater in operation now that the Roof Plumber has installed the Flue.

This is our Heller Bench Top Oven which we've positioned under bench quite nicely .... cooking up a quick lunch - Mini Pizza's.

A now completed Kitchen