We were back on site Monday morning to see the results, in day light, of how the trench footings looked for level after Stu and I were pouring concrete in the dark late Friday afternoon.  In some areas it was ok, in other areas the level was not good, and it was just a case of waiting for the comments from Wayne the brickie when he arrived on site on Tuesday.  The Telehandler arrived on site in the morning, and we also had the trench blocks arrive.

Wayne was on site Tuesday, and surprisingly, he didn’t make too many comments about the concrete trench levels.  It was just a case of getting on with things and putting things right.  As we were laying the trench blocks, we measured up for the walls from the back of the house to the front.  It was fairly obvious pretty quickly that something wasn’t right.  The measurement of the walls we had on site did not match up with the measurements on the plans.  Somewhere along the way we had gained an extra 1.5 metres in length?  After some head scratching, we realised that the Technical Surveyor who had marked out the plot had made a mistake and added on the extra 1.5 metres.  Fortunately the surveyor came out the following day and held his hand up to the mistake, and offered to compensate me financially for the additional costs I had incurred through no fault of my own.  So Stu and I got the new trenches dug out and filled with concrete, so Wayne then had Thursday and Friday to lay the trench blocks and concrete blocks ready for the block and beam floor to go on after Christmas.  Due to the error with the marking out, we now had to lay the block and beam floor after Christmas, which up until the error we were going to get put in before Christmas, so we had lost a couple of days of our schedule.

We all worked really hard over Thursday and Friday, working well as a team, with Wayne doing a really good job to sort out the levels, so by Friday lunch time we were all finished and all the block work was how it should be, nice and level and awaiting the block and beam floor.

We are now off for the two week Christmas break, and will be back on site on Monday 5^th.  So to anyone reading this, have a great Christmas, and all the best for 2009.