Week 6 - External Drainage (1-6 June)

WEEK 6:  External Drainage June 2015 EXTERNAL DRAINAGE

  (1-6 June)

External drainage this week now the slab is down.

These are the oversized water storing drain pipes that enabled us to meet the (huge!) council requirements for on site water retention. See that width of the pipes compared to the telegraph pole? Yep, they are big! Drainage is expensive! Today cost us about $14,000. I could literally feel the funds seeping from our bank account and going under the ground!

 Not least of the cost - these guys! See how they are all standing around scratching heads and looking at the ground. This is about 11am and they can't find the sewer pipe along the back boundary. They kindly dug up the entire rear yard searching for it. Makes me laugh to think that Josh and I carefully weeded the back yard so it was in good condition for the builders. Not anymore!

 By the end of the day the site is covered with about 27 pipes like this sticking up from the ground and the slab. Some freshwater and others tagged as sewer line. These examples are the in and out pipes for our 2 x supersized rain water tanks that will sit on that square, neatly tucked in to the side of the house.

 And, it doesn't look it, but here is one very expensive drainage pit.

 Sealing the edges of the slab where rows of framework/brick will go.

So this week, basking with sunshine, and only one day of work done. 

We were promised frames next week.... actually, the contracter did not show up so we have a full, sad, week and a half of no work done and perfect sunshine. 

Looking for positives, we could say, the slab is very well cured and will be ridiculously strong. 

I think it has sunbaked a little too long! Our slab is a bit like this now!