…or at least that’s what they teach you. Our slab has been poured today, making the time from site start to the slab pour only six days! We were invited out on-site by our site supervisor to see the slab being poured this morning. It’s amazing the amount of concrete that goes into the foundation (and piers) – not something you really think about until you’re actually watching the house come together.

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Thanks to our soon-to-be neighbour Amanda, we’ve discovered that we’ve had site peg out! So what does that mean?

The builder (and quite often the surveyor) pegs out the dwelling footprint from the design drawings. They start at a boundary corner, peg a corner of the building, then lay a string line to describe the perimeter of construction. If the building has walls that step in and out each wall and its change in direction will need to be located on the site.

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