Back is dug out now ready for the pool

Same time as the slab laying Josh came and dug out the back and did a beautiful job!!

 

 

Concrete Slab is laid

The rain held off today. Spent about 2 hours with the structural engineers this morning making sure all the specs were met by the recommendations of my structural engineer and then slab was poured this afternoon.

 

 

 

Concrete Slab is laid

The rain held off today. Spent about 2 hours with the structural engineers this morning making sure all the specs were met by the recommendations of my structural engineer and then slab was poured this afternoon.

 

 

 

Ready for the concrete slab

All the polystyrene and the steel reinforcing rods have gone in and we're ready for the cementing. They've also installed all the pipe work ready for the house

 

 

Piering is in and concrete forms are in place

Concrete piers have now been installed with the ones by the pool having steel reinforcing rods in them. It's been raining solidly in Sydney for the last few days and the ground is very muddy.

 

 

 

Slab is marked out - Call CSI

The land has been marked out with a white chalk line (probably not chalk). But we can now see where the house is going to sit.

 

 

 

Land almost finished

 

 

Land gets cut and fill treatment

Turned up yesterday to find the fencing has been put up around the entire plot and the excavators have already cut and filled the plot.

There seems to be a line of quartz running through the dirt at the back. I need to cut the last piece out for the pool people. Need to make sure we get the heights just right.

Time Lapse Camera

I decided to get a time lapse camera to capture the build of the house. I went with a LTL ltl-6310wa trail camera that uses 8 AA batteries and SDHC cards - at present it has a 16gb card which is good enough for a weeks footage at 12MP. I'm taking a picture every minute from 6am in the morning until 6pm at night (originally 7am til 7pm but some of the tradesmen are turning up earlier).

So 60 shots per hour x 12 hour day = 720 shots.
So 7 days per week x 720 shots = 5040 shots
About 6 months (26 weeks) x 5040 = 131040 shots

PAL is 25fps so divide 131040 / 25 = 5241 seconds of video footage
5241 / 60 = 87 minutes of video = 1 hour 27 minutes of video

Should be super cool. I've uploaded the first 3 days when they start the cut.

The video at 12mp is actually 4000x3000 pixels. I've upload the pictures into Photoshop, cut and past the time/date stamps further up, cropped the image to a 16:9 format and then resized to 1080p. The images are then processed using a batch script.

Then using Time Lapse Assembler for the Mac, I join all the images together to create a .mov.

I then use QuickTime to stitch them together.