Westy's Demo/Rebuild in Perth: SOLD

abbeybox · Sep 04, 2010 9:31 am

Good stuff westy. It will be ticking along nicely soon.

vanilla tree · Sep 04, 2010 9:42 am

westy

Today - we waited until late in the day to go past the block in the vain hope that something had actually been done on time, and what did we find but this:

A truck!

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And guys working!

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And stuff done!

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Wonders will never cease!

I caught word of the concrete truck guy saying something about seeing the other guys tomorrow, so who knows, we may even get a slab tomorrow! What a nice father's day pressie that would be!

Woo hoo! Well done westy!!

I have laughed so hard this morning about the slab invoice and the window frames getting delivered before the actual slab was poured!!!

Unbelievable!!

Lovely weather you're having over there, slab pour is looking beautiful ~ not to mention your gorgeous tree at the back is flowering.

By the way, that trench around the outside of the slab is not by any chance your tree root barriers around your slab?? I'm guessing your 'normal' slab gets poured over the top?

Have a good one!! ~ cheers, J

molly2 · Sep 04, 2010 9:54 am

progress!!

Kazzbah61 · Sep 04, 2010 10:41 am

Great news westy, hopefully things will keep ticking along for you guys. We got some sad news yesterday we are losing our ss he was really great, so disappointed. He told Dh he was leaving in a week was hoping he would last and finish our house, he is our 3rd ss. Wish they could get there act together, and keep good people. I would like to post some pictures up like you have done do I need to load them onto photobucket and specify a size when uploading them (novice here). Really pleased that things have started to progress.

westy · Sep 04, 2010 11:55 am

Bagheera

wow westy - I'm so glad for you - finally something!!

You're not too far behind me - fingers crossed for tomorrow

Thanks Bagheera, yes here's hoping something happens today.

sidewinder

Good to hear the progress Westy, great house plans you have there!

Thanks sidewinder.

rosemi

yay for footings!

Cheers rosemi. Can't believe you're almost finished!

tinkster

Woohooo!! Great news westy, hopefully the rest will be nice and quick and uncomplicated.

Bit rude to invoice you before the slab goes down tho

Thanks tinkster, yeah we couldn't quite believe it.

abbeybox

Good stuff westy. It will be ticking along nicely soon.

Cheers abbeybox, hopefully they can make up some time now.

vanilla tree

Woo hoo! Well done westy!!

I have laughed so hard this morning about the slab invoice and the window frames getting delivered before the actual slab was poured!!!

Unbelievable!!

Lovely weather you're having over there, slab pour is looking beautiful ~ not to mention your gorgeous tree at the back is flowering.

By the way, that trench around the outside of the slab is not by any chance your tree root barriers around your slab?? I'm guessing your 'normal' slab gets poured over the top?

Have a good one!! ~ cheers, J

Thanks J, yeah they're really on the ball there hey. The weather has been pretty good, but not much rain unfortunately means a very long, hot, dry summer to come. The trench is (I think) just the additional footings required to make the slab a bit more stable. We had the site raked down to 1m deep after the demo to clean anything out of the ground, but it worked against us in that we needed upgraded footings for the slab as the sand was too loose.

molly2

Progress

Yep, finally!

Kazzbah61

Great news westy, hopefully things will keep ticking along for you guys. We got some sad news yesterday we are losing our ss he was really great, so disappointed. He told Dh he was leaving in a week was hoping he would last and finish our house, he is our 3rd ss. Wish they could get there act together, and keep good people. I would like to post some pictures up like you have done do I need to load them onto photobucket and specify a size when uploading them (novice here). Really pleased that things have started to progress.

Thanks kazzbah. That's bad news about your SS though, hopefully it wasn't the same one we were going to have. I can't believe you've had 3! What were his initials? How are things progressing for you now?

It would be great if you could put up some pics. Yes, you need to open a photobucket account (which is free) and then you can just click the big green 'upload images' button on the site and select the pics to upload. You can change the size of them using photobucket. Then the tricky part is getting them on here (but really it's easy). When you open a picture on photobucket you will get a box that says "Share this image". From there you just copy the code in the "IMG Code" box and paste it into your post on here. Hopefully that helps.

westy · Sep 04, 2010 2:46 pm

Oh my goodness, can you believe it - we have a slab!

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Here's hoping the rain holds off this arvo....

zoe's mama · Sep 04, 2010 3:30 pm

Hi Westy congrats mate! You're actually on your way to having a house now

Hope its all smooth sailing from here on in -well it doesn't hurt to be optimistic, does it..?

zircon · Sep 04, 2010 9:10 pm

Conslabulations! And a very fine looking slab it is, too! Glad things have finally started for you.

rosemi · Sep 04, 2010 10:00 pm

Congratulations! Its a-- bo-- Its a gi-- Its a Slab! YAAAAY!!

rosemi · Sep 04, 2010 10:01 pm

Is that an Illawarra Flame tree in your back yard???

westy · Sep 04, 2010 10:35 pm

Thanks guys! We are suitably chuffed today!

We went back past on our way out this arvo but they were still at it (just 2 guys doing the whole thing!) so we left them to it. Hopefully I will be able to get some more pics tomorrow! And actually walk on it!!

rosemi

Is that an Illawarra Flame tree in your back yard???

No it isn't rosemi, the leaves and flowers are different. But thanks for playing - you get a prize if you can tell me what it is!!

rosemi · Sep 04, 2010 10:46 pm

haha, not that I want the prize, I'm just curious as to what tree it is. I wonder if its a Coral Tree or Poinciana?

tinkster · Sep 05, 2010 12:11 am

Woohooo!! Go westy!
Working on a saturday, will wonders never cease!

westy · Sep 05, 2010 8:32 pm

tinkster

Working on a saturday, will wonders never cease!

Yes well the manager of the concreting company turned up while we were there yesterday and it turns out that the order for the slab was never sent through so it was done this quickly (and on a Saturday) as a favour!

Here's some more pics of the slab from this arvo's first 'walk-thru' - concrete has never looked so good! ::lol::

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Entry hall:

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Ensuite (in foreground):

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Home theatre (my baby

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Living/dining:

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Alfresco (it looks huge :shock:

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Backyard:

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lilfeggle · Sep 05, 2010 11:48 pm

yay how exciting

feggle · Sep 06, 2010 9:10 am

excellent, I am glad they came on the weekend.

Debooy · Sep 06, 2010 10:36 am

Hi Westy
Congratulations on finally getting your slab.

I'm with rosemi it looks like a Coral Tree to me.

westy · Sep 08, 2010 10:26 pm

It IS a Coral Tree, well done rosemi and Debooy (and thanks for telling me! :lol:

).

Bad news though - it got damaged today. ::angry::

Some &%$#@! obviously decided it was in their way when they were doing the sewer connections and a large branch has been ripped off the tree. I haven't seen it in person but I am very annoyed as it has taken off a fair amount of bark off the trunk, and you can see the branch on the ground:

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Possibly the same dolt has also driven over one of the reinforcing bars for the front portico pillar and flattened it:

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They can't avoid this one cause there are some telltale tracks leading up to it. They also left a massive mound of sand on the slab from digging down the side, so goodness knows what they are doing with it.

The site supervisor and admin have both been emailed with photos so we'll see what they say about it all.

Oh, and happy 300 posts to me... ::lol::

vanilla tree · Sep 08, 2010 11:28 pm

Hey westy ~ congratulations on your slab!

At long last! Hooray!

Boo to that idiot that ripped that branch from the tree. :roll:

Hopefully no long term damage.

It's great to see stuff happening for you.

~ cheers, J

rosemi · Sep 09, 2010 11:52 pm

glad to be of service

(re the tree name). BTW, so long as the tree is not ring-barked, it should survive the damage done to it. As for the reinforcing steel rod, similar thing happened to mine but they just straigtened it up when they began bricking.