Sips and stones may break my bones...

All looking good.

 

That's a man sized digger he has got there, that should make short work of it.
 

Hopefully will be catching you up soon. Be interested to know if you are getting muck away and how many loads it needs. We need to dig a similar area.

 

Cracking location.Spent many happy hours near you as a kid watching the army play with guns and tanks 

On ‎16‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 20:52, dogman said:

Hopefully will be catching you up soon. Be interested to know if you are getting muck away and how many loads it needs. We need to dig a similar area.

 

Cracking location.Spent many happy hours near you as a kid watching the army play with guns and tanks 

Yes, my mates dad was a Sgt Major there and the range was our playground! Wouldn't be allowed nowadays of course, (climbing on the shot up target tanks for example!)  but gave me a lifelong interest in shooting (which has one way or another been my employment twice in my life) and things that go BANG!   .  The sound of distant artillery is the sound of home! Sadly we don't get such low flying jets as we used to back then which were great fun, Harriers, A10s and the like especially.

 

Anyway, back to the subject and here is the current spoil heap/s! 

 

Well impressed with the builder we chose - really friendly guys and know their stuff backwards. With just the boss and the digger driver we went from in unmarked out field on Monday to foundations and blockworks in by Friday. Much to my relief the Building Inspector was a very down to earth and helpful guy too. I gather we may see different ones hereafter and I hope they are like this guy as he was only too happy to answer my questions (I'm doing all the internals, plumbing etc and building the garage).  Beam and block is expected to be on by next Thursday and then we kind of come to a halt for quite a while (apart from drains as we've got a 60+ meter foul run to do plus a backdrop manhole due to the big fall, plus all the usual soakaway etc, though our rainwater goes first via a big pond) as the SIPs folks are still seeking more information from me, which I thought they'd have asked for much earlier than this, and have spotted things they had not factored in, so I think we may end up with at least a 2 month hold, but we're not concerned about that really as there's loads of other things to be getting on with during that time.

Edited January 23, 2017 by curlewhouse

That's great progress in a week. I was past on Wednesday and saw the 'Readymix' wagon on site. It is always a good feeling to actually make a start after all the months of planning and preparation. Hope all goes well for the future stages.