Time for the Concrete Trucks

They are certainly a friendly crowd at Rangeview Villas – several of the residents stopped to chat when we called up yesterday and asked us when we were moving in.  One lady even invited us in for a cuppa, proudly showed us around her villa, and she didn’t know us from a bar of soap.  Think I made a good impression, as I correctly identified her two little dogs as Papillons, known for their  butterfly shaped ears.  (In a former life, my Maltese dog and I  had a short dalliance with the Dog Show Circuit many years ago,  so I know my dogs!)

Work was being done preparing to lay the concrete paths yesterday.  The men were working in the hot sun spreading shovels of the base course down and then compacted it with a mechanical tamper machine. This tool is used in the preparation phases before pouring concrete, and it helps prevent the base from becoming too porous to support the heavier concrete.  Before we left, most of the boxing was in place.  The workman out the front was preparing the ground for the shared driveway, and the boxing is around the side path and fence posts.

 

Preparing the shared driveway

 

The first concrete truck arrived at 7am this morning, we were told, with the second one arriving later in the morning.  All the concrete is now in place, driveway, paths, and the mowing strips around the fence posts.  The workmen were water blasting the concrete to remove the top layer.  This exposes the aggregate, making the paths non-slip in the wet weather.

The shared driveway between the two villas

Back yard with path and clothes line pad

Robin chatting to the workman about laying the concrete

The fence needs to be finished, the clothesline put in place, and our letter box (made out of bricks), is still to be assembled.  Once these jobs are completed, we should be well on our way to receive the keys to the property on 1st March.  And a large amount of money changed hands today to enable this to happen.