Jeff's Worry, or The Slab (apologies to Mark Seymour et al)
A big day, in pictures:
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| That's the crane pump... |
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| ...it's big... |
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| Truck number one of five |
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| Things are busy on The Block |
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| Starting in the lounge room |
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| Jeff (that's him in the red) discusses tactics with the boys |
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| Leveller? Let's call it a leveller... |
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| The boot shot: Jem very much wanted to play too |
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| This dooby is a helicopter - blades spin at bottom and it smooths out the surface |
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| Inspection |
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| The bathroom and laundry get the unfinished look because they have to (so everyone tells me) be tiled... |
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| They even had time for a couple more footings for garden walls |
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| Da-nah: looks grey here, but it's more a mud brown at the moment... |
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| Warwick and me having a post-slab larf... |
All seemed to go pretty smoothly (and very addictive watching it was too). Five concreters, a pump operator, a concrete truck driver and a plumber on site (and at one point two builders and a brickie too - geez, I don't want to know what today alone cost...). There were a couple of panicky moments when it looked like rain was setting in and the big plastic sheets went screaming out - NO rain was allowed until 10pm, according to Jeff, or we get pock-marked concrete and have to grind it back later. The rain held off until 8.30pm - we'll see if that was enough time tomorrow, I guess. But hey, we got floor!
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