We have concrete! - Slab Pour

After a bit of a delay while Porter Davis made the changes to reduce our garage by 10cm we are back on track with a slab being poured.

It took the slab team the day before to finish off the slab setout. They work quickly installing all of the side boards, plastic liner, polystyrene pods/waffles, various steel reo and tied it all off as required.

At this point we had arranged for an inspection to be completed
by a house inspection service. Porter Davis were aware but the home inspection service booked us for inspection on the afternoon of the slab pour instead of the day before. I won't name them here but it's not a good start. I didn't want to delay the progress so our slab supervisor met me onsite at 7:30PM and we went over the work that had been done. Although he would no doubt be biased towards upholding the reputation of Porter Davis it was re-assuring to be able to bounce questions off him. We went over all the same sort of items the these home inspections services do. There were a few items that required adjustment and because he was there it got completed on the spot. Overall it wouldn't be my preference on how to inspect the work at important stages but it turned out ok. I'll just see, but, I probably won't use that home inspections service moving forward.

• 17th Feb 2017: Slab pour

Slab was poured today and... yep... it's a big block of concrete. :-) and upon closer inspection I have requested that the slab supervisor inspect the slab at the boundary of our neighbor. It was supposed to be 100mm from the boundary and it looks suspiciously like it's right on the boundary. It doesn't help that the plans left on site are older plans before the 100mm reduction. This wasn't noticeable when it was inspected prior to pouring because of all the framework and structure around it. Lets see where this goes...