Week 2 - Foundations
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The excellent SE we contacted on Thursday to design the depth of our foundations came back on Friday with the answer - deeper than we wanted at 1.95m in the corner closest to the neighbouring oak (15m away) but his quick response has saved the schedule. We need to add clayboards in the corner nearest the tree but overall it could have been a lot worse.
His rapid turnaround was brilliant and it meant we were able to crack on this week. The groundworkers had already discounted Monday as I suspect they thought they’s be waiting for the SE but through the rest of the week dug all the trenches and on Friday we had 7 lorries of readymix poured.
The only issue was they hit a shaley layer at the bottom of the deepest trenches, so with the BI’s agreement they poured a couple of loads of concrete in on Wednesday before digging out the rest of the trenches.
So now we have all the foundation trenches filled with concrete.
Next week the groundworks team plan to concentrate on the drains, installing the sewage treatment plant (we’ve gone for a Kingspan Biotec 2) and ‘losing’ the massive pile of spoil we have, across the paddock. Block and beam floor to go in the following week. Target for completion of the groundworks is 27 June, so three more weeks allowed.
I’ve checked in with the timber frame company (Turners) and they are still on schedule to deliver and erect the frame between 7 - 18 July.
I have also finally managed to get some quotes for scaffolding and that’s scheduled to go up 1 & 2 July. The company we have always previously used have singularly failed to respond to my repeated requests, so I gave up on them and got a couple of other quotes in, and selected one.
Windows, roofing, screed, plumbing and electrics contractors all lined up - I need to sort out some plasterers. The first indicative price I had for boarding out and plastering was… Ouch! Hoping that might be an outlier; it’s certainly more than Homebuilder’s Bible was suggesting £ per m2.
In other news, we’ve found somebody who wants the timber garage, which we need to remove to create enough space for deliveries. He, his dad, and a friend are taking it down today.
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