Week 1, Day 4

Day 4:

  • Better weather today – no rain and forecast dry for at least the next week
  • Site visit from the Structural Engineer, to agree what to do about building over the old cellar
    • The plan is to use wooden shuttering to hold the foundation concrete, in lieu of a trench, then back-fill around the concrete
  • More digging of the foundation trenches, to the right depth in relation to the finished floor level
  • Site welfare cabins delivered and installed
End of Day 4

Week 1, Day 4

The site welfare cabins arrived on a pretty impressive delivery lorry with a crane that had no problem reaching right the way back to the trailer and could swing the cabins into position some way away.

Site welfare cabins delivery

Site welfare cabins delivery

Week 1, Day 3

Day 3:

  • Another showery day
  • Site meeting with the folks from Carbon Legacy who will be installing the Ground Source Heat Pump system, to confirm the arrangements for the trenches which will hold the ground collector loops
    • Those will be to the west of the house (out of shot to the left of the picture) and will run to within a couple of metres of the boundary hedge
  • Marking out the foundation trenches and starting to dig them out
Day 3

Week 1, Day 3