Rain again

Well Saturday was a washout and my plans to complete the shuttering for the Shed did not work out to the original plan!! I was up bright and early and bought more tools .... yet more tools!!!

Here are a few pic's of what did happen on site. I measured up the shuttering. The build next door had some spare floor joists that are ideal to use for the shed shuttering. I suppose I could have dug a standard strip foundation but I always prefer using shuttering and with the "free" shuttering its a no brainer. Anyway it turned out that the hole we dug was just slightly smaller than we thought so I ended up digging out soil just to get the level. Then it started raining so with the clay bassed subsoil I called it a day as it was messing up the hole (any excuse :-)). The joists were over 6 meters long so the van made a good work bench while cutting out the joints.

Well we need to do more digging for the shed next weekend and order stone/gravel as the ground when wet get's too mucky, and also start the full site clearence. So roll on the orders and planning this week so we can do more work next week
Tasks to be done before the weekend:
- 1 - Order Stone/gravel: need it for Friday 5th/Saturday6th Delivery
- 2 - Book Landscape gardner for the landscape plans which the council need!!! Arrange for this Saturday 6th September.
- 3 - Arrange for site clearence to be completed - contact T.'s cousin who does this to check if possible this week or weekend it can be done!
- 4 - Review if need to book digger again this weekend the weekend of the 13th September
- 5 - Contact Solicitor for follow up on latest correspondance in order to finalise details
- 6 - Complete latest financials (personal & bank forms)

Tasks for the next weekend in progress:
Basically I ordered 180 tonnes of hardcore that Tanya and I will lay per the site layout. It's very basic layout :-) but at least you can visualise the our site plan. We have better drawings from the Engineer which we must scan in!

Our initial plan was to use a JCB bucket loader with back hoe to clear the topsoil but between €600 and €800 was too much for three days. Now we are going to use a 3 tonne digger and 3 tonne dump truck that will cost for the pair €300 for three days. I will operate the digger and Tanya will operate the dumper. With both of us on site this weekend we should have a decent enough output to get the work done that we need to get done.