We have pipes!

The pipes have been laid in for water in the house. It's interesting to walk amongst them and imagine where the rooms are. We're hoping this means the slab will be laid soon. Pipes are in on Tuesday 16 March, supervisor estimates the slab should be in Friday.

This is Abi, standing in the main bathroom.

Not only do we have pipes, but we have rock! We spoke to a couple of guys who were digging out a block a few houses down (which had many large piles of large rocks). They said that it looked like we had just about 1 cubic metre of rock, which is the 'tipping point' for getting charged for excessive rock. No word from the builder yet as to their opinion! We put a $10K allowance in the contract just in case, however we don't want to use too much of that, as there have been a number of 'necessary' variations (most of which, unforeseen by us, but foreseeable by the builder) which we'll need that stash for. (These include steps from the garage to account for a 600mm fall towards the back of the block, and having to move the sewer point because it was under the garage site.)