Delays & slab preparation

More delays for us. So....

This week they hit more rock whilst preparing for the man cave slab so that set us back a couple of days. 

We had the base for the slab prepared this week. 

This is the garage

Man cave area

The damn rock... 

More damn rock...

Me standing in the garage. That's pretty deep! I think the slab is going to be very solid! 

Inspection was booked today with the view of boxing and pouring the slab next week.

Our electricity was also finally connected by the provider. 

All going to plan we should have a slab by the end of next week. ***crossing fingers***

Draft floor plans

Our 'almost final' floor plans... Slight tweeks have been made to this plan but no major changes.

Main part of our house is on the main level. The lower level contains the rumpus room and the two-way bathroom which was designed with our future pool in mind.

You can see from the site contours that our block (aka "the cliff") has a massive 9 metre fall from the front to the back of the block and an almost 6 metre fall from the front of the garage to the rear of the house. This has allowed us to build a double story at the rear with nice 3 metre ceilings downstairs. Downstairs is Mr Royal's area. He calls this his Mancave.


Main level floor plan:

Lower/Basement level floor plan:

The footprint of the house on our block:

We are desperately hoping to receive all the working drawings by Christmas so we can commence finalising all the plans and hopefully commence building in early 2013.