Last week, every morning at 6am, Max arrived at our place to attack the next phase of the project... Where we are dumping dirt and leveling out the area in preparation for the slab, we needed to dig some trenches that will eventually be filled with concrete to act as reinforcement. As Adam put it while explaining the process to me... Basically the slab will be like a really big waffle. Which is exciting. I love waffles.
The trenches obviously would not stay trenches without the use of some sort of retaining walls to keep the dirt out... so, this is what Max has been up to... a process that I'm fairly sure is called 'trench shoring'.
Basically, bits of timber had to be cut and used as retaining walls to ensure the trenches stayed trenches, and the dirt has been piled in the square areas between. When the slab is being poured, the timber will be removed and the concrete will fill the trenches to make the ridges of our big waffle.
This part is nearly done... the countdown to the slab pour is on!
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