Ready for Concrete

We were advised on Thursday that the floor was ready to pour but forecast was for rain.  It did rain on Friday so the decision to not pour the concrete was the right one.  The concrete pour is expected to be done on Monday.

Megan Deacon posted photos of the neighbour's (Falconer) house on facebook.  The framing is up and it looks ready for the roof.

Falconer's house.

Consent official

Friday we visited the site and viewed laid sewerage and stormwater pipes.  A surveyor checked  the placement of the house on the site that afternoon.  Next week the foundation will be assembled ready for concrete.  

Pipes buried

Time line view

Blossoms out at Mary Doyle

Final Changes to get HDC Consent

We had another hold up in gaining consent to build from HDC.  The final and big issue was the southern roof of the lounge was over the easement granted to HDC.   The encroachment was 900mm.

The builder, Scott, negotiated with the council engineer and he agreed to allow an encroachment of 450mm.  So the roof is now redesigned with a shorter eave and we should have consent on Monday or Tuesday.  The house may actually look better with a shorter eave.

Foundation Piles

We visited the site today and the piles have been driven and some of the boxing is in place.

The piles are 150 SED Driven Timber Piles.   The piles are required to provide adequate bearing pressure for the Firth Ribraft floor system.  The top of the boxing (seen in photos) is the level of the floor.   We were surprised and pleased that the floor level will be a good height above the site level;  no chance of flooding.

The neighbour's (Falconer) site has a finished floor and at the Duff's framing is being stood up.

View from driveway

View of Wing and piles

Neighbour's view of what will be the garage

Timeline 8/09/2012

Other activity

Falconer's build

Duff's build

Profiles up on the site

We drove from Wellington to Hastings with our first trailer load of household or garage items for storage on Friday 31 August 2012.

We meet with John Hortop at 1.00pm to discuss the design of the laundry area in the garage.   Our design was deemed suitable and the Denise chose the material and colours for the laundry bench top and the cabinet.

Following this we took our trailer load into a storage shed in Hastings.   On the way home we visited the subdivision and sighted the profiles and spray paint markings on the ground setting out the layout of our new home.  The floor of the house will be a little higher than we expected - that is a good thing.  The floor height will be the top of the profile timbers - seen in photos.

Timeline 31/08/2012

Denise and Mick

Piles waiting to be driven in. 
The top of the profiles is the level of the floor.











Design Builders are still waiting for the building consent.   The consent should be granted next week and work will then start on driving the piles.

Other Activity

Newrick build
Closed in;  wiring done

Falconer build
This team will move to work on our site.

Consent is due