Frames are scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, so excited for that! Here's hoping they start putting them up straight away on Thursday.
In other news, I finally heard back from the MJH excavator about the removal of all that excess spoil from the back of our block - maximum cost would be around $6120 (over $430 per load)!!! Minimum (if he found a more economical site to dump) would be around $4200 ($300 per load)...no no no no no. Not happening. 170 tonnes apparently, which is about 14 truck loads.
A friend of ours recommended someone to us about 2 months ago, and his pricing was very competitive. Then when the block was excavated and they hit the rock etc...our slab supervisor somehow swayed us to use his bloke for the removal of the spoil. Admittedly it was going to be more convenient, and I was under the impression that the dirt had to be gone ASAP otherwise it would hold up the build (even though our excavator stockpiled it all at the back out of the way) so we thought better go with the MJH excavator. All this time has passed and the dirt has still been sitting there. When the excavator texted me yesterday with the estimated cost (and the fact he had spoken to slab supervisor who said there was no rush to get rid of the spoil) I thought bugger this, I am going to call the original guy we wanted to go with in the first place (the friend of a friend!).
Spoke to him and he is $100 per truck load!!!!!!! It is a no brainer - we are going with him. The other excavator was understanding anyway, and I was very thankful to him that he had moved all the dirt to the back of the block so that building would not be affected. We will also get our guy to help cut / scrape the rest of the backyard so we can start our retaining walls, but we aren't allowed to do it yet, but apparently might be allowed to as the build gets closer to the end. Our mate will then help do our retaining walls / landscaping.
I am a bit perplexed at the 170 tonnes of dirt...first we were told 150 tonnes a little while back, and then we were told some of it had already been taken away to other blocks that needed the fill...can't help but feel we were taken for a bit of a ride but glad we have opted to go with our own guy. We are going to save so much money which will be so useful later on.
Hopefully the next post will be about frame delivery! Here are the pics of the termite barrier (not exciting I know):
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