Monday they poured the piers which was great but boy was Tuesday exciting....WE HAVE A FLOOOOR! 
So exciting because it really makes it real. Well it should considering it took about 7 cubic metres of concrete for the piers and ....wait for it.... 21.6 cubic metres for the foundation. The back corner is just above knee height which made a nightmare for the concrete guys. Poor buggers had to pour it in 3 stages to get the height and the eastern framework started giving way under the weight of the wet concrete. They were amazing and caught it just in time.Oh and as a bonus our front yard has raised to the level of the front porch due to the fact that they had about 40tonne of quarry gravel sitting in our yard that they were going to dump.
D asked one of the guys what they were going to do with it and they said why "do you want it?" (It has long been D's dream to get rid of the big rocks that border our front path and raise the level of the yard) Next thing the site manager was asking if we wanted to raise the level and we agreed on D's condition that they get rid of the rocks for us! BONUS it was cheaper for them to get the bobcat to dump the rocks and level the yard than it would have been to get 2 trucks to take it away. 
How easy was that!
2 comments:
aww your house is so cute! looking good now, it will all be worth the stress in the end- and think how much journalling for your scrapbook :)
I've always liked our little cottage and I think there is a part of me that will miss the cottage we moved into all those years ago.
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