Builder visited site to inspect our progress and discuss when work will restart after the 'break'. The brickies are set to start on the 10th Jan to brick up the garage, then the steelwork has be booked in for the 14th Jan, when the framing can continue to upstairs.
I showed the builder that a silt pit had been placed right in front of the Portico, at the entry to the house. Who wants a silt pit there? He said he will arrange for it's relocation later thankfully!
I had marked out position of post holes yesterday and Dad dug them all out by 1130 (he only started at 0930!) I was at my other 'hobby' job until 1230 then returned and then we did a couple of trips to Bunnings to get the sleepers and Rapid-Set Concrete.
We decided to go with Rapid-Set for the concreting as there were only 11 posts to concrete. We only used 16 bags @ $6.55ea. = $104.80 Total. I worked out it would have cost us approx $130-150 if we had of mixed our own concrete on site for this job. I believe we managed to save time, major effort in hand mixing and a little cash in the process.
My mother and father in law dropped off the custom made posts whilst we were at Bunnings.
We successfully concreted in all posts and layed the bottom sleepers, all posts were level vertically and sleepers followed the string line to the millimetre.
Tomorrow we will have 1.5 cubic metres of drainage scoria delivered and will level sleepers using the scoria. We also intend to setup the 30mt of agi-drains behind wall.
See how we can survive the 40deg. heat forecast tomorrow.
Silt pit directly in front of Portico/Entry!
Height and position marked out
The custom made galvanised posts!
Custom powder-coated in Colorbond Monument (top 450mm)
Custom powder-coated in Colorbond Monument (top 450mm)
Posts ready to set in position and set level
Sleepers lay in wait
First 3 posts concreted in and sleepers placed.
How straight is that so far!
How straight is that so far!
All posts concreted in and bottom sleeper in place
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