Yes, very exciting news today. This morning at 7.30am Ross the concrete man (not sure what his actual job title is) and the Dunedin Concrete Pumping company arrived to complete our house foundations under a fiery red sunrise. Apparently the sunrise was fiery red, Steven told me that later because there is no way I get up at that ungodly hour.
I presumed everything kicked off that early because it took all day to pour the concrete and finish everything. Not at all! By 8.30am Steven came in to tell me they were almost finished the pouring stage, so I had to race out with my camera to record events. I'm very impressed. Of course I've witnessed concrete pouring before on Grand Designs so I know how these things work, but great to see the pad being finished so quickly.
Its been a long time coming, but since we are paying for the house as we go along there's no point rushing!
He's not having a tea break - the coffee cup is for pouring extra water out. Quite a posh cup for concrete work I thought.
Steven's handiwork:
This is Ross smoothing out the surface:
You just want to squidge your hands in there don't you?
Exciting times! Those bits of wood on the edge are to level the pad up to exactness - it was 5mm out on one corner. Ross was very impressed, he said professional builders are routinely 40mm out. That's my perfectionist husband! I can't wait for the rest of the house to go up. I might record all these little perfect bits on our journey to housedom, take them to the bank and say "SEE?! You wouldn't give us a mortgage but we did it anyway. NAAH!"
I presumed everything kicked off that early because it took all day to pour the concrete and finish everything. Not at all! By 8.30am Steven came in to tell me they were almost finished the pouring stage, so I had to race out with my camera to record events. I'm very impressed. Of course I've witnessed concrete pouring before on Grand Designs so I know how these things work, but great to see the pad being finished so quickly.
Its been a long time coming, but since we are paying for the house as we go along there's no point rushing!
He's not having a tea break - the coffee cup is for pouring extra water out. Quite a posh cup for concrete work I thought.
Steven's handiwork:
This is Ross smoothing out the surface:
You just want to squidge your hands in there don't you?
Exciting times! Those bits of wood on the edge are to level the pad up to exactness - it was 5mm out on one corner. Ross was very impressed, he said professional builders are routinely 40mm out. That's my perfectionist husband! I can't wait for the rest of the house to go up. I might record all these little perfect bits on our journey to housedom, take them to the bank and say "SEE?! You wouldn't give us a mortgage but we did it anyway. NAAH!"
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Yay! How exciting!! xx
(04.29.10 @ 01:23 PM)Well done Steven!
(04.29.10 @ 10:32 PM)Perfect baby and now.....perfect house! Goes without saying about the wife of course..
Thank you mum :)
(05.01.10 @ 12:02 AM)Two men in our life - and now a concrete foundation! Love the pics of Elmer. It must be exciting to see those foundations down - real progress? It's a year since we saw you (ANZAC day 2009) but we remember the Jervis Bay days with big smiles. Love to you all. Mike
(05.05.10 @ 03:24 AM)Aw thanks Mike! How lovely of you to comment. Yes, two wonderful men, and when I have my walk in wardrobe life will be complete! haha. I'm home in the summer so hopefully see you then x
(05.05.10 @ 09:09 PM)