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 [...]
Where we are now.
Today we have agreed terms with a local firm of ground workers a local groundwork and plant hire company C H Stokes. I have known Chris the owner for quite a few years and have used them before when we built the garages and play room. Although I was pretty sure from the start we [...]
