#groundworks

Breaking up

Left over from the building of the foundation and block and beam floor is an area of concrete abutting the rear wall. This would be...

Steve put the finishing touches to the B&B sub-floor this morning and has now left the site. The next phase is the construction of the...

Today the blocks and beams were delivered and laid out. We're expecting Steve back later in the week to finish off the block and beam...

The infilling of the block walls on Friday has caused one of the walls to buckle (outer leaf on SE corner). According to a friend who...

It hadn't been forecast but we had more torrential rain again this morning. The dumper was back on site for shifting concrete and moving...

Today the pipe to the foul water drain went in. It's the brown pipe in the picture and it connects via our existing manhole. The black...

We had some torrential downpours yesterday and overnight and the foundation trenches were flooded this morning. After pumping out the...

This morning Steve marked out the position of the block walls for the foundations and then waited for delivery of the blocks and cement....

The excavations for the foundations were finished today and the remaining concrete for the footings poured into them ready for the blocks...

It may have passed muster with building control but this morning there was a far more important inspection... by our neighbour Tom who,...

... chronicles the building of a strawbale house to replace a WWII Portal bungalow in rural Dorsetshire.