Week 1, Day 2

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

Week 1, Day 1

Week 1, Day 1:

  • Mostly a day of preparation for the work to come
  • The digger and dumper got delivered but not until quite late in the day
Day 1

Week 1, Day 1

The string lines I’d laid at the weekend show up fairly well in this photo, marking out the positions of the outer walls.The visible crossing of the string lines nearest the camera is the south-east corner of the house (where the kitchen will be).