My Porter Davis Build Blog

My Slab was meant to be poured Friday 27th June. However, Victoria was hit by a 'weather bomb' , few days before hand and my site was absolutely drenched. According to my slab supervisor, a digger had to be dug out of another site. So all work stopped for the week and, needless to say, slab pour did not happen on Friday. Luckily the following few days only had light patches of rain and the subbies worked overtime on the weekend to prepare the site for slabbing.  After the rain stopped, they dug out the top soil and replaced it with crushed rock to keep the site dry. See the mountain of dirt at the back? Hope they remember to remove it! Here's the trenches for the strip footing by my front porch All the lines have been marked by this roll of string All boxed, waffle pods, steel in, and ready for pouring  Drove by at the crack of dawn, Tuesday 2nd July. The concreting was just about to begin.  Here's the finished product! All...

Finally the diggers were in, much to the delight of my kids.  Here's the Engineering drawing to where all holes are meant to be dug. You can see where they have filled to the right of the 'line of cut', there are more piers than anywhere else. Must be because the fill in more unstable. This must be what my Tender BC meant when he said it would cost more if I was to move the line of cut and raise the slab more. ie. more piers would be required.  I have noted that one of the strip footings needs to be poured separately to the slab and not tied in. When I mentioned this to the slab supervisor, he said they normally pour together but separate it with a plastic membrane. I also noted that there was no separate strip footing inspection required on my building permit. When I rang the building surveyor company that issued the permit to ask about this, they were not too fussed with this footnote and didn't think a separate strip footing inspection was required.  Her...