More Concrete - and Less Kitchen
Owen brought the cavalry with him this morning - or at least Eben, the young apprentice, and Logan, a more experienced builder. He had ordered the concrete truck back for 11am and still needed to drill the remaining pier holes so had given himself a deadline.
Eben and Owen worked on getting the piers dug. Logan began to demolish the kitchen and laundry so the asbestos removal guys can come in and take the fibro away next week. I was busy moving the remaining few things from the office to the spare bedroom so that the fibro could be removed from there as well.
I hadn't long get everything set up in here when the cement truck turned up. This time there were no trench incidents! Eben and I barrowed the concrete into the holes while Owen used the hole auger to agitate the cement in the bottom of the holes to make sure it bonded to the bottom. The engineer asked him to do this since the bottom of the holes were pretty messy given all the ground water. I'm glad to say that I didn't follow the barrow into any trenches, but did miss the hole once of twice!
Once we had unloaded the first mini cement truck, I came into the kitchen to help Logan. By this stage he had pretty much gutted the kitchen and laundry and had just finished pulling up the lino (two layers). I helped him pull out the hundreds of little staples that held the floor covering in place.
Meanwhile the second, full sized, cement truck came and went. So now all the piers have been filled and the bottom of the trenches have had a thin layer of cement over them so that if it rains, it wont hold up the remaining foundation work. The next step is to set out the foundation steel and then poor the final cement. While that's going on outside, the asbestos guys will be getting rid of the fibro inside.
The place is really looking like a building site now!
Eben and Owen worked on getting the piers dug. Logan began to demolish the kitchen and laundry so the asbestos removal guys can come in and take the fibro away next week. I was busy moving the remaining few things from the office to the spare bedroom so that the fibro could be removed from there as well.
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| Bye bye kitchen |
I hadn't long get everything set up in here when the cement truck turned up. This time there were no trench incidents! Eben and I barrowed the concrete into the holes while Owen used the hole auger to agitate the cement in the bottom of the holes to make sure it bonded to the bottom. The engineer asked him to do this since the bottom of the holes were pretty messy given all the ground water. I'm glad to say that I didn't follow the barrow into any trenches, but did miss the hole once of twice!
Once we had unloaded the first mini cement truck, I came into the kitchen to help Logan. By this stage he had pretty much gutted the kitchen and laundry and had just finished pulling up the lino (two layers). I helped him pull out the hundreds of little staples that held the floor covering in place.
Meanwhile the second, full sized, cement truck came and went. So now all the piers have been filled and the bottom of the trenches have had a thin layer of cement over them so that if it rains, it wont hold up the remaining foundation work. The next step is to set out the foundation steel and then poor the final cement. While that's going on outside, the asbestos guys will be getting rid of the fibro inside.
The place is really looking like a building site now!