Image 1: Excavation of the edge beams for the house. The external walls carry the weight of the trusses so for extra support in the highly reactive clay soil deep edge beams were installed around the entire perimeter of the house.
Image 2: this is the triple-car garage slab preparations.
Image 3: The concrete pumping rig. Due to the risk of the concrete trucks getting bogged (and therefore the high potential cost of getting them towed in addition to wasted concrete) the plug was pulled at the last minute on Friday Oct 11 for pouring the garage slab and edge beams. So this expensive rig sat idle. Our surveyor said that the rig was a minimum cost of $1000 per day. Luckily I had a fixed price contract!!!
Image 4: Pouring the garage slab. All systems go on October 14th, Steve's birthday.
Image 5: Our lovely garage slab. Not long after this photo was taken it poured rain and the guys spent quite a bit of time 'rescuing' the finish of the slab.
Image 6: the concrete edge beams of the house and the area covered with crushed rock in preparation for the waffle pods.
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