We've been away for two weeks, but I've now decided on a company to carry out the groundworks and take me up to DPC. I did consider hiring someone with a digger to clear the site and dig the foundations which would have saved me a good amount of money but as we've already lost a lot of time and with family commitments I decided to give the entire groundworks to someone else. This is a list of the tasks I'm expecting the contractor to have completed: Demolition of all out buildings. Demolition of utility and kitchen saving the bricks Remove all waste Dig footings 600mm wide and 1000mm deep. Remove spoil. Dig oversite down to required level and remove spoil including internal breakfast and dining rooms and hallway. - Dining room doesn’t require digging as it has a suspended floor with a 650mm void. Supply and lay concrete foundations Supply and lay concrete blocks up to DPC Supply and lay all internal drainage Supply and lay all storm and foul drainage. Re...
Brickwork has been progressing on the garage. The difficulty has been finding and cleaning the best of the salvaged bricks to reuse. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7 Previous Next
With the BCO scheduled to visit today so that the oversite on the garage could be laid, we were hoping the weather would be kind. The excavation of the concrete pad also continued. Photo 1 Due to the rainfall over the last few days, there was a lot of water in the ground as shown in Photo 1. Photo 2 Photo 3 The water was pumped out and the area dug to a depth of 800mm below the foundations of the house. Photo 4 Photo 5 The BCO visited at 13:00 and approved the dug corner ensuring we had reached clay, and was happy for the concrete to be poured on the extension tomorrow once we had some photographs showing the layer of sand and DPM. Photo 6 Concrete was poured to form the garage floor. Photo 7 The builders also started to look at preparing for the structural steels. Photo 8 As this wall was going to be knocked through, I was concerned the picture rail was going to be damaged, so took the opportunity of using the trestles to remove ...
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