Slab Pour Day!

The day started early, at 7am, with a call from Matt, PD's Slab Mgr telling me that all issues had been rectified (as expected) and had also been checked by their engineer (most unexpected). He also said that there were several concrete trucks lined up and ready to go!

We had a look at around 9am to see what progress had been made. There was one truck filling a line pumper, with another one waiting.
We stopped to talk to one of the Boral concrete truck drivers. I asked him how much they held. If I remember correctly, he said that he can hold 5.8 cubic meters, but they only allow him 5.4. I do not know why.

I asked Matt how much concrete went into the slab. 84 cubic meters! I also found out that they went over double (25.8 instead of 12 cubic meters) the amount of concrete for the piers.

The back of the slab had been poured, starting on the garage. The second guy is using a vibrator that helps settle the concrete.

Lots to do.

We next popped around at 3:20pm. The slab had been poured and they were now applying detailing finishes (edging, finalising the surface etc). As some of the concrete had set enough for the support boxing to be removed.

Detailing the portico as it joins the house level.

A little more...

Pulling down the supports.

We came back around around 5pm, to see how much things had progressed.

Sitting high above ground level. The rear of the house is even higher.

The garage.

Looking across the garage to the rear.

The alfresco. There is meant to be a drain somewhere in there...

Looking from the rear to the front.

Looking from the rear to the garage.

Looking through the garage to the rear.

All detailing finished.

Finally! A wide enough angle to show everything! All done!

We were there until 6pm, and they were only just finishing up. That's an 11 hour day, of hard, back breaking work. It's not a job I could do (or want to do for that matter).

Earlier in the day, we got them all a large subway platter of food and some drinks. We ended the day with a carton of Crown Lager. They were totally gob-smacked! But happy enough to receive it as well. Evidently it does happen very often... I don't think that it hurts to show a little appreciation.

Matt gave me a call late in the afternoon letting us know that he was done, and that we'd soon be contacted by our site supervisor who would oversee the rest of the build. I gave Matt some positive feedback, which he greatly appreciated.

The day did not end there though. We arrived home to find an email in my in box. It was the invoice for the slab...