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Block and beam? No! Ground bearing slabs. A decision that has given me sleepless nights and resulted in some serious hard graft. We had 60 ton (that’s what we were told 🤔) of Type 1 MOT delivered and had to then proceed to get into the bays and levelled up, before compacting it. The brickie was an arse as he should have stopped building and said “get your hardcore in and laid”. His work was rather shit, so I knocked some of it down to enable me to get a dumper in distribute the piles to make levelling it quicker. Building control were fine with me using grano dust as the top layer. This compacts nicely and gives a much harder surface than sand. Below are a few pictures. Hoping to get everything finished by tomorrow. I’ll breath a sigh of relief that it’s done and dusted.

We were quite keen to get three-phase because it gives us more options for AC installs and solar/battery set ups. We just got our 3-phase quote back and it came in at ~£150k lol. 🤦‍♀️ Annoyingly, three-phase is actually very near to our plot. The issue is that it's some kind of old set up they're not allowed to provision anymore, so they'd have to upgrade a ton of stuff. And since we don't "need" 3-phase we'd have to foot the bill for all those works. Anyway, moving on!