What was once a line on a drawing, becomes the shape of our house now. We had a very nice, but freezing cold sunny week until Friday when rain interrupted works a bit, but the plumbers continued on Saturday – excellent!
The builder guys created a casing for the concrete, then laid all the underground pipes, leveled it with fine sand, added a thick layer of insulation and a steel mesh and ultimately ‘knitted’ the the pipes for our underfloor heating down. Can’t be long until they do the concrete. :)
In the meantime we continued to plant dozens of native trees in the steeper areas of our gully and leveled the veggie bed terraces with organic material.
![Creating the casing for the concrete slab](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150623_0002_1600-640x360.jpg)
![The last digger in our house](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150629_0011_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Leveling the ground with sand](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150629_0012_1600-640x360.jpg)
![All pipes are in!](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150701_0015_1600-640x360.jpg)
![10 cm of insulation to the ground](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150701_0023_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Painting the walls](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150702_0026_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Steel mesh for the concrete](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150704_0030_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Underfloor heating pipes, not only in the kitchen](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150704_0048_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Planting lots of Grevilleas on the banks](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150704_0032_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Flat area for a future green house at our hill top](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150704_0045_1600-640x360.jpg)
![Amazing cloud formation at sunset](https://www.schnitzel.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/150630_0038_1600-640x360.jpg)