Category Archives: Foundations

Week 1, Day 3

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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

Week 1, Day 2

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Day 2:

  • Not great weather – plenty of rain showers
  • Setting out corner boards based on my string lines
  • Laying pads for the site welfare cabins
  • Removing the turf from where the house will be
  • Excavating the old cellar (nearest the camera) which turned out to be about 1.8m deep with concrete slabs at the bottom
Day 2

Week 1, Day 2

The cellar doesn’t show up particularly well in the overview shot so here’s a clearer view from a different angle.

Old cellar

Old cellar – roughly 1.8m deep