After weeks of nothing much very visible happening on the new house, today saw the start of the groundworks. The crew were due at 9am. They arrived at 11 and had a tea break, six phone calls and a big conflab. After another few phone calls they decided they needed more equipment so off went the tractor and trailer to fetch some. Another truck appeared. Some more digger parts appeared. They had another cup of tea.
About 2pm they started and cleared the whole back-garden in about 40 minutes. I fetched 6 year-old grandson to watch after school." It's boring," he said, "they wont let me do anything, I'm going home." I watched fascinated.
All that is left is a pile of rubble to be removed in the morning, a pile of bushes to be replanted and a wide expanse of flat clear space where the lawn will be. No dead trees, no stumps, no little twee brick walls, no giant weeds.
I love it.
Just got to dig the foundations tomorrow then we will be really motoring on.
4 comments:
All sounds good. I hope you're taking pictures as you go along.
Oh yes, plenty of stuff on camera already! By Friday I should have rooms ready to carpet so I can move into the rest of the house. Yay!
"a pile of rubble to be removed in the morning"
From my own experience with builders, I trust you got them to specify which morning?
Ha. Worst Half is the main builder so I do have some clout!!
The pile was gone by 8.30am and we now have footings almost dug.
I would have worried otherwise!
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