Concreted footings today
3 day’s in and things have gone well. We hit chalk at around 800 mm in the majority of the excavation except on the chimney side where we went down 1 meter and left it for the DS and NHBC inspection. The District Surveyor was OK with everything but requested another .5 of a meter [...]
Ground works start today.
Got started today. The ground workers delivered their plant on Saturday and I met them first thing this morning to assist with the marking the site out. We soon realised I had cocked up and one of the sheds was just to close to the site so it had to come down before we could [...]
Looks like a building site…….
Well nearly! Looks like we are set to start excavating the footing on on Monday week. Spent a few hours yesterday taking a couple of panels out of the fence to make an easier access for the lorries as the existing drive is to tight. Replaced them with some site security fencing, probably wont stop [...]
Planners!!
I have a number of conditions on our planning permission, three of them are preventing us from starting. So last Tuesday I set off in the Snow with a sample of the brick we intend to use, a sample of the tiles, a detailed landscape drawing and the spec on the driveway I paid the [...]
