Amazed that we have had more progress on site with workers down there yesterday and today (Wed 20th & Thurs 21st April). Driveway partly profiled and temporary road base laid so that the trucks can get down there. Some more excavation carried out (check out all that sandstone) and 3 truck loads of fill brought in.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Falling in love again
...with our site! Democorp have done an amazing job. All asbestos contamination cleared and sorted, and new retaining walls and levels created in the garden. Just love it!
Look how beautiful the bottom is looking at the moment....
View back up our plot....
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Game on
Hooray for a few dry days. The latest is that we found some small pieces of asbestos buried in the soil, so we have had to have a full site decontamination carried out. Yep, need that like a hole in the head. We have been waiting for some nice dry days to do this as the soil removal is charged by the ton, so we didn't want to have to pay double for extra heavy wet soil. Work started today and fingers crossed it stays dry until tomorrow when it finishes. On the upside, we have been able to get some of the garden levelled off as a result (which we didn't think we could afford to do at the moment). Obviously it is much easier to do this before the house is built, so we are grateful for this little silver lining!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
More pics
Where the geologist excavated to see how far down the rock is apparently
Big rocks that we thought were fixed. Moved and saved for the garden or to be broken up for retaining walls.
One day there will be a house on top of that rock...Thinking about what to do with the bottom bit of the garden...need to improve/secure those steps down to the grass area.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Aerial shots
Hoping to capture some of the build progress from the air. No progress to be seen on our site in these 2 pics, but you can see the progress on the site behind us
September 2010
September 2010
Monday, February 21, 2011
The turning of the first soil...
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