This week on Building TV: How to create foundations

What was once a line on a drawing, becomes the shape of our house now. We had a very nice, but freezing cold sunny week until Friday when rain interrupted works a bit, but the plumbers continued on Saturday – excellent!

The builder guys created a casing for the concrete, then laid all the underground pipes, leveled it with fine sand, added a thick layer of insulation and a steel mesh and ultimately ‘knitted’ the the pipes for our underfloor heating down. Can’t be long until they do the concrete. :)

In the meantime we continued to plant dozens of native trees in the steeper areas of our gully and leveled the veggie bed terraces with organic material.

Creating the casing for the concrete slab
Creating the casing for the concrete slab
The last digger in our house
The last digger in our house
Leveling the ground with sand
Leveling the ground with sand
All pipes are in!
All pipes are in!
10 cm of insulation to the ground
10 cm of insulation to the ground
Painting the walls
Painting lines where the walls will go
Steel mesh for the concrete
Steel mesh for the concrete fuinished, laying the underfloor heating pipes
Underfloor heating pipes, not only in the kitchen
I can well imagine a finished kitchen here :)
Planting lots of Grevilleas on the banks
Planting more Grevilleas that will hopefully soon cover the banks
Flat area for a future green house at our hill top
Flat area for a future green house and compost area on our hill top
Amazing cloud formation at sunset
Amazing cloud formation at sunset!