I'm due to start the digging out of our basement, it's set into a slope and once dug, it will be open at the front, onto a grassed area.
Having received some reduculous quotes for the basement walls, a mate suggests we get a locally recommended concreting company to cast the slab and he and I construct the basement formwork. He's just done some, as a subbie, for a stand at the local football ground. He suggests he and I could do the work for half the cheapest quote.
How hard can it be? After all I have the structural engineers drawings to work to and millimetre accurate foundation drawings from Hilliard?