Concrete Work planning

Had a family friend who is a concreter meet me out on site yesterday to advise/quote for the work that we want completed.

Basically, we will be doing exposed aggregate to the driveway and pathway to the front door and the rest which is the 1m concrete apron around the house will be coloured concrete. All 100 mm thick.

He suggested we mark out what we wanted done to measure and quote and we did. Here is my VERY rough paint work :P

Examples of homes with flat driveways

After finding out that our home's Floor Level (FL) had been dropped to match that of the footpath. I decided to go have a look through some new estates at homes with flat driveways.

Here are a couple photos I took:

Yet another surprise! Hopefully not too serious...

After reviewing our floor levels today I noticed that Porter Davis has reduced the total house level by 200 mm between our contract and final construction drawings. We missed this when we were checking our construction drawings. We were also not informed of this change at any point!

Here is a comparison of the two drawings. Hoping to have an answer for this first thing tomorrow morning.

First Dilemma...

So, during our Tender appointment we were given a house siting drawing to sign. We pointed out that the crossover was not aligned with our garage. The feedback was that we could ask the developer to relocate the cross over or we would be forced to move the house. I got the engineering document for our block and it seems that all the other blocks are in the same boat with having the cross over as far to the edge of the block as possible.

We really didn't want to move the house any further North as we would be loosing space on the alfresco side and be gaining space on the 'dead' side.

Now we are waiting for a response from the Developer regarding the feasibility to relocate the crossover.