HOUSE SITE PREPARATION – TIME TO GET SERIOUS

The steel fabricators were given the engineers plans to manufacture and galvanise the steel frame, and so the wait began……. In the meantime we started the cut and fill for the bottom room.

Time to start on house site

The cut begins

The work progresses

…but not as bad as it looks….

The cut

Cut & Fill finished.

Ready for a retaining wall

A bit more cut than anticipated

This room underneath the northern end of our house was decided upon in the latter stages of the design process, after consideration was given to the slope the house was built on and the height off the ground at that point. Surely with a little bit of  cut and fill we could utilise that space and squeeze another room underneath for some “Secret Men’s Business” as Nino our builder decided to describe it. As the cut and fill progressed it looked like a rather large excavation, but in the end it was not as big as it first appeared.

Time to retain it:

A brick retaining wall was built for the back wall of the downstairs “Secret Men’s Business Room

Retaining wall footings

Retaining wall bricks/ Secret mens Business

Our first wall

Waterproofing done

And a curved block wall to retain the side by the garage.

Block Retaining wall

Cut is now retained