First floor (level 1) poured

Some action shots today. Here's our very own concrete mixer, ready to pour our concrete for level 1 of the first floor (there are two levels - the living level and the bedroom level. Our bedroom is on effectively the second floor, although it won't feel like that).

We chickened out of doing the pour yesterday - there were very large, very ominous black clouds over town and it was forecast to rain. But after all that panic, it didn't rain! We only lost a day though.

And here's a nice concrete man "kelly floating" (??) our slab. I actually have no idea what that means. It seems important though.

Also, despite us having to wait until it wasn't raining so that we could do the pour, Regan now has to go down in the evenings and spray the slab with water. I know it does make sense if you think about it further, but it does seem pretty counter-intuitive! If we're lucky, the framing might start going up on this level next week.

And if you think that the slab looks rather dark, you are not imagining things. It has been injected with a black tint.