1 Stubborn Rock & More Delays

During this week we found that we can get our shed slab poured on 300mm of fill. So we organised to get our tank excavated, by Ben Barker of Barkers Excavation, and to move the excavated earth onto the slab site. When I went down on site, the surveyors had pegging out our house which I marked out with marking paint.

We then realised that the shed & house would fit but there would be no physical way to drive a car in or out of our shed if we had to move the shed because of the rock in the way. Ben gave John a call who has a larger dozzer the Leon, 26 Tonnes vs 18 Tonnes. John had a look at the site and is confident that he can remove all of the rock that is in the way of our shed, he will have a go at this job around Wednesday 7th April. Hopefully we will have some good news by the end of next week. Ben is going to still excavate our tank site for Bega Concrete Tanks to install the week after Easter, at least we will have something underway. All progress on our house & shed slab is on hold until John gets on site and has a go at this stubborn rock!!!

With all the above said, when we see views like this it makes it easier to push on!!!

Trying To Get Things Started

Today Mel & I traveled to the property to meet up with our concreter Boris, our plumber Greg, our excavator Leon & the surveyor Steve. Leon has said it is about as much as he can do with the site. We are still left with a large rock right where our shed needs to be and thinking about moving it to the left to get it off the rock area.

Boris still thinks it is a very rocky & un-even surface and will have to get in contact with the shed company about altering the shed slab.

The surveyor is going to be back on Monday to peg out the house. We are now toying with the idea to rotate the house slightly to have the edge of the house run along the cut line to give us more space where the rock is.

Hopefully everything will come together and we can get a start on our slab the week after easter.

Mel's Trip to the property

Today, Mel went down to the property to meet with Leon & our drafts person Ken. We had a bit of a problem with a 'rock' that does not want to budge. Mel & Ken talked about house position if we could not move the rock and that we should get a surveyor on site to mark out the house position. Will have some better news next week.