Plumbing

30 September 2013

We were in full swing now! The plumbers arrived on site 6 days after excavating. I was surprised by how far they had to dig down for the plumbing! My once smooth, level block, was now all dug up again! We were yet again blessed by the universe as no rock was hit during the plumbing phase. The tradies said we were very lucky as they hit rock on the neighbour's block behind us. As far as I could tell, the plumbing all looked good.

Next thing to happen was the peiring on 3rd October 2013. I had worked night shift the night before, but was too excited not to watch the peiring. So after a few hours sleep I was back down at the block. The drilling rig was pretty cool to watch, but after the first few holes I was starting to get pretty tired. It turned out they drilled 38 holes, and I watched all this take place over 5 hours standing in the sun. Needless to say I got a suntan. It was particularly important that I was out there, as our contract only allowed for 50 lineal meters of peiring and anything over that would incur extra cost. After the peirs were all drilled, I went on site with the tradey and we measured the peirs together. It turned out that we went over our quoted amount by 12.3 lineal meters. This costed an extra $1k, but it was better to have sturdy peirs as that's what holds up our house! We had been pretty lucky so far with the excavating, that the extra cost didn't worry us. Had we have hit rock, we could have been up for thousands extra.