Back to the Site Clearing - Sunday 7th September

Well back on site Sunday to roughly mark the house from our site layout plan.  

Once complete we could then dig out the area to the front and left side of the house for further hardcore to be laid, as well as the back of the site and by the shed to prep for us to move in temporary building while the house is being built.

We moved the final 10 tonnes of hardcore from the site next door to where Chris had continued the digging from the gate into the site.  And levelled it out as much into the site by the gate as we could.  Elaine, my sister, and her husband Sean popped over to check out our work.  Sean decided to have a try of the Dumper check out his big smiling face below!!

 

 

 

Chris did great work digging out the areas we need to place hardcore down next week and then once he completed I moved to the digger to remove the top soil into the dumper so Chris would dump it at the very left side of the site.  There was no way I was getting on the dumper after Friday's incident!!! 

We finally finished - totally knackered!!! But delighted we still did well despite the disappointment of Friday pushing our schedule back seeing as we can only work on site at weekends.    Later in the evening my Aunt Celia and her husband Fred also popped by and it was great to see them, they were so enthusiastic about the site and my sister's house next door. They were in the area checking out a site for their son who has been looking for a site too!!

We crashed onto the couch when we got home, boy what a weekend.  So much more to do.  Chris was took Monday off work too to continue the digging out and clearing of the site all around the house - not sure when the hard core is going to be delivered and when we will spend another few weekends working away on that.  All I know is that it has to be done in the next few weeks as we plan to meet the builder and engineer on site in October to discuss the build spec and the builders schedule, costs etc to start the main house construction.  We will be building the shed ourselves - already ordered the 'bricky' so we'll see how we go as we have never built before!!!!