After the slab pour, nothing happened for about a week (except curing, apparently). Then the polished concrete guys came and did the first polish on the slab- everywhere except the wet areas (will be tiled), and the kids bedrooms, (will have carpet). Even with the preliminary grind it looks great, and the concrete guys did a great job in pouring a nice flat slab.
And today, they started the rammed earth walls. The process involves mixing some quarry rubble with concrete, then tipping it into the form work and compacting it with a kind of mini jack hammer thing. The wall is made on site, and in the purest form you can use earth from the construction site, however without an unlimited budget and unlimited time it's actually not practicable, and we have used earth from Stonyfell for our walls.
And today, they started the rammed earth walls. The process involves mixing some quarry rubble with concrete, then tipping it into the form work and compacting it with a kind of mini jack hammer thing. The wall is made on site, and in the purest form you can use earth from the construction site, however without an unlimited budget and unlimited time it's actually not practicable, and we have used earth from Stonyfell for our walls.
There will only be 3 rammed earth walls in the house- the rest of the walls will be a light weight construction product. The walls are positioned so they (hopefully) use their thermal inertia to greatest advantage.... I just hope the house performs as we think it should after all the planning.
And now for this post's product shot- the basin mixers. The shower mixers will also be the same. We had a mild panic when the GFC hit and the dollar fell that prices of imported house stuff would sky rocket (and it has, even though the dollar hasn't stayed low), so we bought these last December. . This is the Kludi Bozz basin mixer. Luckily after 12 months I still think it's sexy. Just as well I haven't changed my mind- it's too late to return them!
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