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Lovely looking place Russ

I am going to fire up the mini digger tomorrow at 7am and sort it out. We also don't have mesh. BC signed off the footings so too did warranty provider.

My wife and I discovered the channel below yesterday and it was uncanny similar to our story. Brilliant! When I see a man using a mini digger themselves, then in my eyes, they are a 'self builder' https://youtube.com/@self-buildfromplottohome?si=Migc64pM6lMZmcC8

As previously mentioned, I'm a catastrophiser and worry the house will collapse.

But this isn't a step. The footing is sloping down 200mm over a 6m run

I can't show a photo and maybe I wasn't clear, but the variation means that the concrete depth at the front of the garage will be 200mm thicker compared with the back of the garage as the finished top level needs to be the same height. I'm just concerned that the front of the garage will be bearing more weight down onto the ground than the back of the property and as a result, it will settle more.

I should have been more forceful here as I think the excavator driver I hired has monumentally xxxx up. We didn't pour our footings on Friday as the JCB broke down which caused a 1/2 days delay. We are scheduled to pour tomorrow am at 1000hrs, but whilst putting the pins in for the top of the concrete, I have spotted that the dug footings are 200mm deeper at the front of the attached garage than the back. The garage has a stepped footing relative to the house. If I am correct, this is a big issue and although the garage is single storey, I am sure the 200mm depth variation will just cause significant settlement variation and I have no choice but to shutter up the garage and pour it another day. The footings where the attached house is going are +/- 20mm I was contemplating getting up early and try and correct the depth variation myself. If I didn't have a working hours planning condition, I'd have done it this afternoon. Any pearls of wisdom?

If an internal soil pipe comes down the wall and exits the house via a rest bend, is the invert level of said waste pipe governed by the thickness of the floor build up, eg screed, 150mm PIR, 150mm concrete slab, sand blinding, hardcore? Or are those layers irrelevant by the virtue of exiting straight out the house? I am also scratching my head as to how I use a rest bend and Radon barrier to hat on said rest bend when the bend radius is quite large and the Radon membrane is underneath the concrete slab. This will mean that for the barrier hat to be sitting on the vertical pipe, the invert level is forced really deep. I had no intention of having to run a deep invert just because of a Radon membrane.

I do have a piece of ground that I can just dump the slops on. Someone suggested knocking up a plywood 1m2 sized container that they can use.

The brickie and his labourer are now coming along to assist.

What's the pea shingle for?

I'm already feeling very apprehensive. Being a catastrophiser, doesn't help matters.

So, I'm doing it with just the wife and I. We are having a pump though, so hoping that will negate any problems.

I was planning on pouring this all in one shot using a pump. The only part of the step footings I’m scratching my head about, is the distance that I need to allow after the internal cavity wall which is at a lower depth. I have drawn the step footing below, but don’t know where the step goes in relation to the lower 600mm footing.

I just need to make sure that the stress of the first one doesn't kill me first!