Slab of Love

Concrete is one of those materials that has increased in cost exponentially since the pandemic. As we reset our project with current pricing (given a three year hiatus since the budget was initially drafted) we found concrete, windows and steel to have been impacted the most.

We partnered with our friends at Liquid Systems who  gave generously of their time and skill to help us lay the foundations for the rear of our home - the deco interpretation of the modern extension (no box at the back for us!)

As always we faced the access challenges of a tight site and inner city parking (including navigating the bus stop for the 508 to Moonee Ponds and two Telstra pits). Whilst to some that maybe intimidating, to us it is par for the course. Each of our team are experienced in the way materials are drip fed to site to ensure compliance with council storage requirements. We also use a distributed method to pump concrete in from safe parking locations via extra long line. 

Pouring concrete is an adrenaline fuelled exercise and our pour was no different.  The traffic management crew had an accident and were hours late, so Ben and I jumped in to manage this and save our several thousand dollar loads of live wet conc from ending in landfill. 

With 30 days to fully cure we were able to measure for steel fabrication and finish off framing internal to the cottage to get those tasks off the list.