Slab!

The slab was laid today! 3 loads of concrete starting at 8am (well, 8.03 but who's counting). Funnily enough the kids didn't have us up at 6am this morning so we were getting dressed when Rob and Pete arrived at ten to eight.




By their own admission, not the smoothest job they've ever done - but given we're putting 100mm insulation and 75mm screed on top of the slab, I suppose we can let them off.... Full speed ahead monday.

And we've sorted how the drains will go in. The kitchen waste will curve to run parallel with the main pipe into the rear manhole. The downstairs loo will get a straight run to the rear manhole, and the existing surface pipe that the loo joins will become a spur from the new toilet pipe. The existing main soil which runs under the house goes straight to the rear manhole so no problem. The new en-suite will get a manhole at the rear corner of the house then run across the join into the existing main soil before it reaches the manhole - this is so it doesn't do a u-turn within the manhole - well thought out Geoff!

Unfortunately it means we'll have no back door for a while as the drains are right outside and the new porch needs building to join into the back wall of the extension... so getting out to hang the washing is a bit tricky! And we have to keep the door locked to keep the kids in... oh well.