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It's Alive!

Grosey

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So, work has finally started! After initially thinking I had purchased a fully excavated site, 2 days and 700 tonnes later, I understand why everybody says ground works are the worst part! That is of course except for the opportunity for me to spend 2 days having a great time driving a 9 tonne dumper. ?

 

Slightly hairy moment when I bumped a tree, showered myself in apples, lost the use of the brakes... Spotted an apple had wedged itself under the brake pedal as I was rolling downhill!

 

One of the labourers has been assigned duties of chief Goose Wrangler... The Neighbours Geese and various other wildlife are very used to having my plot as their afternoon grazing ground and they aren't best pleased with my arrival. Funny they have their schedule though, 1pm every day they come wandering over in single file for a snack!

 

Still, 4 days work and I am now the proud owner of something that more closely resembles a building site, with completed footings. 

 

 

 

 

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Redoctober

WOW - that was a lot of earth removed. Did the cost of that removal come in at your expected budget, or was it a case of it needed doing so it was a matter of paying whatever it did cost? I will look forward to seeing this development unfold as the site appears to have been a challenging one and you have done well to have had the vision to develop it to your requirements. Good luck and keep us posted.

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jack

This bit is so exciting, isn't it?!  Great work getting to this stage.

 

Are you having semi-basement and backfilling against the back wall of the house once built?  If not, when's your retaining wall going in?

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Grosey
3 hours ago, jack said:

This bit is so exciting, isn't it?!  Great work getting to this stage.

 

Are you having semi-basement and backfilling against the back wall of the house once built?  If not, when's your retaining wall going in?

 

Correct, just seeing anything happen is really exciting! Retaining wall is going in first, then back filled up to the level of the ledge, semi basement/garage as you say, with basically a dormer bungalow sat on top. Hopefully a good chunk of the spoil will go back in behind both retaining walls. 

 

The levelling of the the site was an additional cost. £300 a day for digger and driver, dumped hire and diesal for both, I drove the dumper so save a couple days wages. All in should hopefully only come to £1000 of extra costs which if correct I'm more than happy with at groundworks stage. 

 

All the spoil is currrntly piled up at the back of the site in "Shellet Mountain" - Neighbour also took a good couple hundred tonne to adjust some levels in his garden. Im hoping to use all the spoil on site over the course of the build and not have to pay for anything to be removed. 

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Grosey

I should say I purchased the site with the excavations done as per the first photo, never saw the site when it was just a sloping bank! God knows how many tonne the previous owner removed to get it to stage 1. 

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This is the other angles of the house, from the rear the lower white portion will be underground with rear patio doors opening on to the ledge level. 

 

 

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