I'm so excited that now I get to have my own construction thread
As many of you already know we are building Plantation's Empire design on our block at Narangba.
The block was cut about a week ago and since then things have started to move along quickly.
Monday they delivered the bricks and pegged out the site and left numerous empty coke bottles and food wrappers
Tuesday they did the plumbing - we got a call from the SS to say they'd hit rock There goes the $3000 provisional amount in our contract for rock excavation which we thought we'd get back
Today they are boxing up the slab and then tomorrow they should start pouring it!
When we saw the house pegged out we realised that the slab for our Polytank was going to extend out too far and block access down the side So I contacted Plantation to see if we could pay the extra fees and costs and swap to a slimline tank - it turned out that it was going to cost us over $2500 to do this once we factored in the extra cost for the slimline, the redrafting fee, the council fees and the $500 post contract change fee So we decided to stick with the Polytank I know everything needs to be ordered ahead of time but it's very frustrating that it's so hard to make changes. I'm a very visual person and it wasn't until I physically saw the tank slab that I realised it was leaving it very tight ... oh well - I guess i'll just have to go on a diet
Anyway here are various pictures of what's happened the last few days: (I hope the pics work!)
Here's our bricks!
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Here's a close up of our bricks - I dont know why hubby put that wood on top of the brick
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Some of the plumbing:
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I know I shouldn't be excited about this - but sadly I am :
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Anyone know what this is for?
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And oddly enough this is right where our front door is meant to be?
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I hope that's not to many photos!!