Barrier, steel and set out, looked at before any of it is permanent.
The slab carries the house, and its engineering lives in things that vanish under concrete: beam geometry, reinforcement, cover, the vapour barrier and the set downs. A shower recess set down that is wrong at the pour is a tiler's problem months later and an owner's problem for years after that. The photographs below were taken in Leppington, Oran Park or Austral, between two and eight kilometres from Catherine Field, and each caption names its suburb. We would rather tell you that than let another job pass as a local one.
Annotated findings from Slab pre-pour inspections on Catherine Field builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid
7Pre-handover (PCI)Two to three weeks before your handover dateInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
A wet area floor has to fall to its waste, and the fall starts with the concrete. Get the set down wrong and the tiler is left building a slope out of adhesive, which is where flat spots and ponding water come from.
Only what is on the surface. Everything beneath the slab stops being verifiable the second the concrete is placed.
We simply attend on the new date and charge nothing more.
An hour to ninety minutes on a standard lot, with the report out that evening because the truck comes in the morning.
Yes. Moving a waste before the pour costs minutes; moving it afterwards means cutting concrete.
The engineering for the lot, along with the soil report behind it.
