At long last the main base has been laid today!!! See and download the full gallery on posterous Sent from my iPhone4. Posted via email from Matt Takhar’s posterous
At long last the main base has been laid today!!!
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At last we have concrete in the ground! See and download the full gallery on posterous Sent from my iPhone. Posted via email from Matt Takhar’s posterous
At last we have concrete in the ground!
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The building inspector says YES!!! At last after what feels like an epic journey the local council has finally signed off on the foundations thanks to WSL! The concrete is being poured tomorrow. Drain now lowered Pipe work replaced and boxed The equipment ready for the next stage Blocks hiding! Impressive bracing! It looks a [...]
The building inspector says YES!!!
At last after what feels like an epic journey the local council has finally signed off on the foundations thanks to WSL!
The concrete is being poured tomorrow.
Drain now lowered
Pipe work replaced and boxed
The equipment ready for the next stage
Blocks hiding!
Impressive bracing!
It looks a mess but its a thousand times better!
Latest photos from another days work by WSL. The building inspector is coming out today! See and download the full gallery on posterous Sent from my iPhone. Posted via email from Matt Takhar’s posterous
Latest photos from another days work by WSL.
The building inspector is coming out today!
Sent from my iPhone.
It looks a mess but its 10 times better than it was! WSL to the rescue! See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Matt Takhar’s posterous
It looks a mess but its 10 times better than it was!
WSL to the rescue!
Saturday 22nd May is going to be a day to remember. We spent all day finishing the foundations to the new spec, 1.5 meters deep by 600mm wide – 7am to 5pm – the hottest day of the year so far! Then at 5:10 – just 10 minutes after we finished for the day and [...]
Saturday 22nd May is going to be a day to remember.
We spent all day finishing the foundations to the new spec, 1.5 meters deep by 600mm wide – 7am to 5pm – the hottest day of the year so far!
Then at 5:10 – just 10 minutes after we finished for the day and almost finished all of the foundations, disaster! Two of the sides gave way and collapsed back into our nicely finished hole!
That was the last straw for me, I have well and truly thrown all of my toys out of the pram!
Time to call in the professionals….
To be continued!
oh Sh*t! 1
oh Sh*t! 2
oh Sh*t! – 2 again
oh Sh*t! 2 – dam it
oh Sh*t! 2 – Is that my shovel?
Is it me or is this world going mad!?! My friendly building inspector has just informed me our foundations needs to be deeper, a lot deeper, very very very deep.. 2.7 meters kind of deep. Yes 2.7 meters, 2700 cm, 106 inchs, 8.8 feet… argh! Apparently its because of the hedge and the clay. It [...]
Is it me or is this world going mad!?!
My friendly building inspector has just informed me our foundations needs to be deeper, a lot deeper, very very very deep.. 2.7 meters kind of deep. Yes 2.7 meters, 2700 cm, 106 inchs, 8.8 feet… argh!
Apparently its because of the hedge and the clay.
It goes like this… the hedge or trees (conifers actually) can drain the water out of the ground making the clay crack which could cause long term subsidence. The trees could also grow to 200 foot! I could also win the lottery tonight or retire at the age of 32 (in 6 days time) BUT its never going to happen!
Or, this is good, wait for it… I can chop all the trees down, prove they are dead and then “only” dig 1.5 meters deep.
Oh and its all got to be 600cm wide now… because of the clay, not the trees this time, its clearly the clays fault.
Now I’ve gotten all that off my chest and have almost recovered from shock I’m going to ask politely for a second opinion.
PS: For the records, conifer roots do not thicken over a period of years they are not like trees with deciduous root systems.
Killer trees ahead!
More trees, they do need a trim…
Trees!
Garage – showing distance away from trees.
Garage – showing distance away from trees.
Download now or watch on posterous IMG_0211.MOV (9861 KB) A short clip showing the results of our hard work over the last three weekends. Thanks to, Dad, Morris and Mark…. oh and Sarah for providing food, drink and looking after the kids! Posted via email from Matt Takhar’s posterous
A short clip showing the results of our hard work over the last three weekends.
Thanks to, Dad, Morris and Mark…. oh and Sarah for providing food, drink and looking after the kids!Another weekend digging in the garden! Summary Lots of clay! Removed the bottom of swimming pool to find: Thick rubber 1 inch of sand 6 inches of concrete! Another Kango to remove 6 inch thick concreate, about ten feet worth Finally hit the right level 1000 – 1100 deep Grab lorry number 3 on order! [...]
Another weekend digging in the garden!
Summary
- Lots of clay!
- Removed the bottom of swimming pool to find:
- Thick rubber
- 1 inch of sand
- 6 inches of concrete!
Concreate, rubber, sand clay… what the hell.
Dad and Mark defeating the swimming pool base.
Ah ha! Marked popped round for a cup of tea and received a shovel! Cheers mate!
Still no tea!
okay you can have a cup now…
1 meter deep..
4 meters long, 18 inches wide and 1 meter deep… easy!
Can anybody see Charlie?
Grab lorry number 3 needed or I could do a few tip runs in my company car 
Okay, so who’s idea was this? We thought it would be a “good idea” to build an extension to our house. At the time of agreeing this I didn’t realise I would be doing all the ground work! Here are are few pictures from the first two weekends. May 1st : Lifted patio slabs – [...]
Okay, so who’s idea was this?
We thought it would be a “good idea” to build an extension to our house. At the time of agreeing this I didn’t realise I would be doing all the ground work!
Here are are few pictures from the first two weekends.
- May 1st : Lifted patio slabs – with kango (snapped two bits) – over 180 slabs!
- May 2nd: Lifted crappy pug and hardcore and all sorts of crap!
- May 3rd: Levelled base, 9 inches deep
- May 8th: Started digging main foundations
- May 9th: Continued digging foundations, flooded foundations from soak-away!
More to follow!
Slabs up, extension marked out – looks easy!
Hmm, bit of a mess in this corner
All slabs taken away
Hmm, this looks suspect – what is that bar?
More prep work for the base
Piling up the rubble for the grab lorry!
More rubble…
The whole base has to be 9 inches deep, apparently!
Digging the base!
More rubble…
At least my son helped me… for 5 minutes.
“Who’s idea was this?!?”
Charle with Bob the Builder hat on – safety first!
Whooo Hooo – base is now 9 inches deep!
Hmm, suspect corner has sprung a leak!
Dads back to help digging the foundations… he helped with all the rest of it as well!
Tea break! Grace has popped out to check progress with cousin Max.
Morris is back to help out!
This is the second lot of rubble! First lot was taken during the week – cheers!
Ah, we have sprung a leak!
Ah ha! We have found the swimming pool! Yes Swimming Pool – f-ing builders filled it with rubble!
And now the bottom of the swimming pool.. metal backed!
Thats all for now!
I need a bud!
