Friday, December 25, 2009

Excavation Complete

After one week we are done. Took a little time (and added expense) to get the sandstone out. They needed to bring in some sort of rock saw to get a nice clean cut down the fence line. Finished product looks pretty nice.
We got a bit of a shock when we found out we were up for 23 truck loads of fill removal. Seems a little excessive.





Saturday, December 19, 2009

Excavation Pics


From the back

From the front of the block


Anyone want some Sandstone?


Start of Side cut. Location of retaining wall

Rock saw at work


Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Excavation starts

Just found out they have started excavation already!! Had a call from the supervisor not long ago saying they had hit sandstone(we knew that was coming) and asking whether I was happy with them to remove the sandstone and take the fill.
I wasn't expecting them to start the same day they assigned us a supervisor.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Construction Certificate approved and we have pegs

We received a new hydraulic plan a few weeks ago to fulfil council requirements. Basically we had had to add more trenches to hold more runoff. Not real happy about the extra 7k variation that was added to the contract but what can you do.
Thankfully no major issues getting the construction certificate approved which we found out about last week.
We went out to the block on the weekend and noticed they had done the pegout. Sorry no pictures. I wasn't expecting them in yet.