My Porter Davis Build Blog

The Fixing Stage invoice was officially sent to me on 27th Oct which put it at week 19 of my build. That's just over four months which, especially considering my delay due to the power lines, is damn quick. Anyway, back to the fixing invoice, it was sent a tad premature because there were just a 'few' outstanding issues that needed to be attended to... 1. Bedroom 2 door not straight Here the door is not aligned to the cornice or the wall.

Lockup happened over a week ago Friday 26th September - Week 15 of my build! Everything's moving faster than I can blog, which is a good problem to have! Ever since the scaffolding went up a month ago, there's been 6 to 10 guys working furiously on site, sometimes even on weekends! Here it is fully bricked up, roof, eaves, windows and doors

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...