For some many months we have been waiting to get a slab. Actually we've been waiting a couple of years for a house but the slab is the next step in that process. And has been for the last three months. I know I've mentioned it over and over in previous posts but things have been going so slow ... not slow, just not going at all ... that we no longer get a warm feeling of excitement when progress finally occurs. Because when it does occur, it's always late and it's usually not complete. The slab was supposed to happen all at once.
- Excavation: 1 Day
- Drill piers: 1 Day
- Let piers set: 2 Days
- Weekend or something
- Plumbing: 1 Day
- Lay the wafflepods and prepare formwork: 1 Day
- Pour the slab: 1 Day
It was supposed to take less then TWO WEEKS. As it has happened each of these steps has taken it's originally quoted time, plus two weeks to get them back and fix it, plus the originally quoted time to get it right. I am the avatar of frustration.
So forgive me if I don't get giddy with excitement when little parts of the job that I'm waiting to have done get completed months late.
We still don't have a slab yet. What we do have is this:
Waffles.
Oh and for the curious, this was the message from the plumber to the builder discussing the appropriate method for filling in the trenches.
Waffles.
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