The groundworks begin
- Apr 29, 2016
- 2 min read
Steve Brown of Europower will be doing the groundwork for the build together with a few other tasks that need heavy machinery such as breaking up the concrete slab where the Nissen hut stood; digging trenches for a new connection to the water main and an outside tap; burying the cable which takes electricity to the summer house and workshop and shifting top soil from the location of the strawbale down the garden so that we can use to use it to construct banks on which to plant hedges. Steve arrived early on Thursday 28th April 2016 to begin. First he took the steel sheets from the old Nissen Hut to the scrapyard for us. Currently steel is almost worthless and we had been unable to give it away!
His next job was to break up the concrete base on which the Hut stood. Only the edge was reinforced concrete which made the task easier.
The concrete was piled up ready to be removed from the site and then the top soil was scraped off. We are going to retain the soil onsite and use it to create earth banks on which to plant hedges.
The view from the back door of The Grungelow at the end of the day.
Although the water main passes through the far end of the garden (beyond the summerhouse) our connection and stop valve are in the neighbouring property. The pipe carrying our water supply can be seen on the lower edge of this picture. The pipe crosses under the fence in front of the ash tree on the right hand side into the adjacent plot. A new pipe is to be laid in a trench which will be run parallel with the fence to the the far end of the garden where it will join a new connection on our side of the boundary.
The concrete linear feature running diagonally from the left is our sewage pipe. It connects to the main foul water drain which run across the plot this side of the summerhouse. The sewage pipe for the new house will run closer to the boundary on the right hand side and the existing pipe will be redundant. Depending on ground levels it may be possible to build over the existing pipe and leave it in use until The Grungelow is demolished (saving money) if not it will have to be diverted to the new pipe.
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