We are ready for the next inspection visit. This time it is our foundations and making sure the bottom of the trenches are on firm ground ready for 300mm thick and 300mm wide of concrete foundation’s!
Hopefully our Building Control officer will come Monday so we can order the concrete as soon as possible.
Our Building Control Inspector has arrived! He is looking.. .. he is looking .. .. at our sewage pipeline .. .. he comments that the gravel stones looks larger than he is expecting but we explained that we ordered 10mm stones and that is what we got! We didn’t realise that it might be anything else! He is happy with that anyway as long as we pack down good and proper! His next visit will be to see our foundation formwork and state of the ground just prior to the arrival of the concrete!
So we passed! Again ! Phew !
I’m off to fill in the trench with a merry tune !
We had a flying visit from our Building Control inspector and we had a quick talk about the need to make sure the ground under and around the garage will be compacted very carefully to minimise settling effects. He was reassured that our garage slab is going to be 150mm thick and will have fibre reinforcement added. So we can now get on with the massive task of digging a large hole!
Dave the BCO came and approved the sewage processor in situ.
We had an email today from Dave, our Building Control Officer, saying that the Structual Engineering report on the Garage design is ok and he is happy so long as we follow all the requirements laid out in the 32 page report!!
Dave our Building Control Officer came today to inspect our Leach field and the pipes. He said “OK” and that was that! Painless! So Far! He asked to see the Sewage Processor unit in its hole before filling. We also gave him the Structual Report of the garage for his consideration.
We have sent in the plans and paid the fee (£541) to the local authority building control department. This is the first of two submissions relating the the build, this one concerns the garage and the ground-works in the vicinity. The second submission will be all the rest…