Concrete Slab

Concrete slab was poured today.  They were practically halfway through just before 9am and in the afternoon, the concrete was treated to prevent it from drying too quickly.

Now, we can see the footprint of the house relative to the land.  The right side was meant to be a 3m clearance, wide enough to have a carport there.  It didn't kook that wide today, though.  We could have had less than the 2m clearance on the left but that would have meant "double handling" of the bricks.  In short, it would have cost us another $2k or $3k because the space was going to be too narrow for the contractors.  It wasn't too bad, though.  We never really liked the idea of being too close to the neighbours.  That's a pet hate of ours whenever we see the new estates being built with quite pathetic narrow streets and gaps between houses so small you could probably hear "conversations" next door (Von would say something more crude but I wouldn't do that on this site!  HaHaHa!!!)