At lunch time today, we had a visit from an unexpected person, the courier driver from UK Mail that had caused the damage to our Fence (see Fence broken by delivery driver) and he was honest and upfront to admit that he did the damage. He didn’t realise that he had done, hence why he […]
We had a delivery from UK-Mail today and the driver hit our fence post and snapped it off! He appeared to hit the post and break it off as well as flattening a few road cones placed by the fence to warn drivers that it was there! We have contacted UK Mail and will wait […]
Today we cleared and flattened the strip of ground alongside the Loke from our driveway, all the way to the hedge and water meter. We scraped the whole section between the house and the Loke, making sure we still had a berm beside the Loke to keep out the rainwater running down the Loke. It is now […]
In damp weather, we tackled the next source of flooding, this time coming off the Loke as the rain water collects together off the surface of the loke and some of the neighbors driveways and runs down the Loke towards us. We are unfortunately at the lowest point down the slight hill so most of […]
Today, we attempted to block off the rain water spillage coming from the workshop. See the little movie of the “river” gushing out of their workshop area (river starts at 12:24 and lasts for over half an hour!). As you can see what damage their water has caused! So we decided to mount a barrier […]
This morning, Stephen finished off scraping any excess soil lying within the footprint of the house. There was a little bit here and there but not much this time, in the area covered by the kitchen, bedroom 1 and the great room. Now, over to the next job of digging the next hole for an […]
Today, we went out to find out how level and flat the ground is for where the footprint of the house is going. We created an attachment for both the batter boards and for the dozer blade on the mini-digger to generate the laser line and receiver respectively, to allow the mini-digger to move around […]
We had some spare time and it was slightly raining today so we took the opportunity to have get a fire in the incinerator going to get rid of various wooden rubbish around the site. Like for example, 7 wooden pallets, brambles, rotten OSB boards and off cuts from the garage we have collected over the […]
As to our rule, for Sunday, we do quiet jobs around the house and the site so not to disturb our neighbors. Today, we did several tasks as follows: Camera and TV Aerial We decided to take down the heavy wooden old pole that holds up our TV Aerial, Camera and floodlight. It was too […]
We start the huge task of sorting out the site, ready for the main house to be built upon! The soil is a real mess of old garden rubbish, DIY waste and building rubble from the old little cottage, as well as old metal pipes used back in the days when the whole area was […]