Slab

We arrived home from our honeymoon in Fiji to find our slab had finally been poured a few days earlier. On first inspection it seems tiny, however I've been informed once the frames and gyprock goes up it will look bigger. I'm sure once we move in and have to start cleaning a place twice the size of what we have now it will seem plenty big enough too!

 

 

We went in and took some photos in various locations through the 'house' as you can see below... sleeping in our bedroom, having a bath, sitting on the couch in living room, cooking dinner in the kitchen, and, yep you guessed it, going to the toilet!

 

  

A brief intermission

A fortnight of constant rain slowed things down on the house front causing a three week delay on our slab. However the delay timed out quite well with other life commitments we had going on, such as our wedding!

We spent a week in Sydney and the coastal town of Kiama with overseas friends and relatives in town for the wedding, then returned to spend a frantic two days packed with hectic last minute preparations and organisation before the big day on Saturday 12 April!

The following Monday, we set off overseas with 18 of our closest friends and family, on what I dubbed our 'familymoon', to Fiji!

Piering and brick delivery

After two weeks of on-and-off rain, progress has been somewhat slow. We had expected to sign off on the first stage, the slab, last week. However almost a week later and we are still slab-less.

The piping is all in now, and what I think is the concrete piering. We've also had a delivery of bricks, although with more rain scheduled for tomorrow and next week it's going to be a while before they're needed!

We were hoping to be signed off on the second stage, the framing (or 'stick stage' as I call it), before we head off on our honeymoon in ten days - that way we'd return to a bricked up house. However the way things are going we'll be lucky if we even have the slab by then!