And here are some pics we took yesterday, the piers have been finished and the block has been leveled and the sand/gravel spread over the piers...

Piering Done 18.06.09

I take my hat off to Wisdom , it poured down overnight so the place was a mud field and they still came out and did the holes for the piers and were about to fill them when I left the block at 2.30pm! Good work Wisdom!
(I had to go and see the depth of the piers as some of them were deeper than what was included in the contract, we only had up to 1.5m deep in contract, but it will work out ok as most of the front ones are way below the 1.5m, most average half that size)
Pics of the action on Thursday:

We've been benched!

We sneaked out from work at lunchtime to see if something had happened on the block and... We've been benched! yay! We are so stoked about it. Go Wisdom!

All the fill has been leveled out and the block is now nice and flat with the step in the middle, even the drop edge beam at the back doesn't look like it's going to be all that huge (let's hope it stays that way). Hopefully we'll get the piering done tomorrow, fingers crossed the weather holds up!

The leveled out block:



The step (split, it's only a 340mm step down)

While we wait...

While we wait for Monday to arrive and the benching to start (rain you better stop right now!) I thought I would post some "action" pics from the w/e.

We went down to the block yesterday to see if all the dirt (fill) had been finally dumped and we happened to be there when the truck got there to drop some more fill off (his second last load!). Nice shiny truck! (well, am I going insane now and becoming a truck spotter??).

Not yet... :-(

Is it Friday 13th today? it certainly feels like it, nothing went our way today (and another building buddy didn't have good news today either, hang in there Danma, I'm sure it will work out!)

We were all set for benching to start on our block today, as our SS had advised us, but it wasn't to be... nothing to do with the weather of course, perfect sunny day! I think the builder might have misjudged the amount of fill we needed so today was spent bringing in truckloads of dirt...

Spoke to the SS this afternoon (the last thing he needs on a Friday I am sure), I think he could tell that I was on a low and very disappointed but promised that benching will get done on Monday.

I guess after seeing the great progress on Principessa’s (F+S) site at the Ponds I thought we would at least get the benching done today as planned... oh well, I'm sure they'll make up for it!

It's supposed to start raining on Wednesday so I guess that's what made us a bit sadder today to not see all that much progress… Oh well, let's stop dwelling on it and at least I will post a couple of pics of our fill piles and the portaloo on site.

Thanks for your comments and encouragement everyone (Southies, Nirman...), sorry I haven't replied but I am having problems posting comments on blogs (even my own) from my home PC...

Site Start Friday 12 June!!!!

Yay Wisdom! we got contacted by Wisdom today to advise that we'll have excavation next Friday, I imagine that this will depend on the rain so please weather be good and at least stop raining by next Wednesday!

Site Start???

We've heard back from Wisdom today and they have advised that they were planning to commence excavation this Friday but that it might end up being early next week instead because of the rain... Ms A said she'll get back to us later with a scheduled date!

Yay! I can't believe that we might be finally starting, so exciting (and scary too)!