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The Build - Ground works - Final part

Redoctober

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The ground works have moved on considerably, no doubt assisted by the fine weather we have experienced since  mid April. The dwarf wall and base for the car port was always the priority as the frame itself arrives to site on Monday 14th May. The main house sub structure is almost complete – the ducting for the electricity cable and water pipes are in as are the drainage outlets. Over the next week or so the sub base will be completed. The TF is due to arrive Tuesday 29th May.

You will see I have electricity going into the car port structure – this is where I will be housing the main electricity meter. Look close enough and you will see an additional piece of ducting. This will allow a return run back into the house. I have also allowed for water to be supplied to an outside tap in future.

You may be able to pick out the orange temporary fencing. Installed to protect the tree as per a planning condition. However, more importantly, nesting in the long grass between the fencing and the tree is a pheasant. She is sitting on a nest of at least 10 eggs. I discovered this as I was strimming the long grass a week or so ago!!

I have also attached an image of the trench in which we placed the water and electric ducting.

One of the many reasons for joining this forum was to try and establish the likely costs for various elements of a self build. A s a complete novices it was important to us to try and establish such costs as we didn’t want to venture into something that was going to financially break us. So with this in mind, I am happy to disclose the cost of our ground works to the point displayed in the photos shown in this entry. Hopefully, others will  appreciate it as I am keen to offer whatever information I can for the immense wealth of knowledge I have gleaned so far from this wonderful forum.

Total cost so far for the ground works –

Strip site and to do concrete foundations - £5500

To build to floor level - £4100

To prepare and concrete ground floor - £9000 [includes car port]

Thanks for reading.

 

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CC45

Thats a neat and tidy site.  Looks good so far.  Think our ground works was about 30k but that included b&b floor, soak aways, stoning up around house.  It is what it is.  

 

I think this is a nice stage of a build - not that many decisions and progress seems fast.

 

Enjoy it.

 

 

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newhome

Looks good! Has that come in more or less on budget? I guess the info I always find useful is how far from budgeted costs something comes in at and if there is a variance what caused that. 

 

And yes, the weather has been amazing here. You really struck lucky with that. 

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Redoctober
4 hours ago, CC45 said:

I think this is a nice stage of a build - not that many decisions and progress seems fast.

 

 

Yes, I have to agree I did enjoy the process and the decision making wasn't too difficult either. I'm sure that will soon change!!

 

4 hours ago, newhome said:

Looks good! Has that come in more or less on budget? I guess the info I always find useful is how far from budgeted costs something comes in at and if there is a variance what caused that. 

 

Thank you, yes, the builder has been good and the figures mentioned were what I budget for. Although having said that, I had forgotten the dwarf wall so that had to be included - but in the scheme of things not a problem.

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