i love fire places
but i agree about your reasons, i would too of done the same thing
oh i checked out your blog and i am now following
have you done all your colour selections??
Grauci sorry i didn't reply sooner... i missed the post
they usually don't do soil testing till not long before land titles. though it depends on builder
as every builder does things differently.
they did ours a bit to early as they had not finished with all the fill and now thats been done dennis family homes have advised us that to wait about a month for the soil to further compact and then they will get a true indication of what kind of slab we need.
In regards to horror stories in other stages except for what has been mentioned on this site