My Porter Davis Build Blog

My framing started Friday July 4th. I thought this was way too soon since my slab was only poured on Tuesday! Turned out though that it only meant my frames were delivered on that day Then they spent a couple of days marking lines out on the slab. It wasn't until Tuesday 8th July that they actually started laying the frames on - a whole week after slab pour. That's about as much gap between pour and frame that I could have hoped for from a volume builder.  Within 3 days, my whole first floor was practically done! By Friday 18th July, the second storey was almost complete. The Roof trusses would be done on Monday and that would complete the frame stage... Monday came and went and no work was done. Tuesday came and went and no one was on site. What happened was that the OH&S guys put a stop to work on the second storey as they were working too close to power lines... Oops! Here's a pic of the issue: The scaffolding and platform to ...

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...