Slabby days :)

Well, this was the day that we had been waiting for...... Our slab was poured and I was very impressed to see how quickly it was done. They were finishing up around 1230pm having started about 6am. I took the doggies up in the morning to see it, and I had to try very hard to restrain them from putting puppy prints all over the pretty new concrete. I am sure the concreters would have been very unimpressed!

When I went back again in the afternoon they were polishing up the concrete to make it pretty and flat.

I couldn't resist carving our initials in the slab :)

Having a slab makes building very real now. Had to take some of our besties up to the land on Saturday to celebrate! The next step is to put up the frame, which should take about a week. The following week the roof should go on (weather permitting, of course - we have some storms forecast for the next week). Fingers crossed .....

Boxing up of slab

Here are some pics of our slab being boxed up. Put a couple in there so you can try and get some perspective. It looks HUGE!! Very exciting for us as has been an anxious couple of days with a bit of a delay.

Screw piers galore

This week we also got some screw piers put into where the slab is going to go. They literally screw into the ground (at natural ground level) and provide stability for the slab. Not very exciting to some, but for us, awesome!

In other news, J had a call from the site supervisor today to say that the concreters have been delayed a couple of days so unfortunately we aren't getting a slab on Monday 5th October. Not happy Jan!