A week where some of the realities of building arose .. ie minor shit happened that had to be resolved.
The cabins arrived tues/wed, we now have a toilet block – mens and ladies, a canteen/drying room – if folk get wet on a day they’d better have dry clothes for the next els not much will happen, and a site office on top of the canteen. I connected the water up pretty easily, although the hose-pipes swell worryingly when a couple-bar go through them. The electricity was another matter. Each cabin has a 32A plug and the canteen has two good heaters, a water heater, a kettle and microwave – potentially this lot can suck 100A which is the limit of the property supply. 16mm armoured cable (112A) to junction box (100A) to 3 (32A) cabin feeds. Gawd help the elec bill.
Weather has been good to date, but after digging the second stage of the house footings it poured through thurs night turning the site into a quagmire. Footings were tidied up the next morning and the cement lorries srted turning up, As the site is on a 15o slope the first lorry started sliding down towards the footings. They quickly backed out, and had the fill one area of the footings with the digger moving it across to the rest. Footings were successfully poured but whatta mess at the end of the day. Long way to go yet.
Next door has a lovely willow tree 4m from the boundary – blxxdy thing. Immense time has been spent by all and sundry, partic the structural engs designing the garage footings to deal with probably the most water sucking tree around. We got a design wed evng with 2.3m deep footings .. all for a garage. The site engineer then started measuring out on thurs aft to find tree-roots and the site loo in the way of the dig. So, a hasty move and redesign had to be done Friday. This is before we have the hassle of re-siting the drains (after a weeks faff checking for asbestos) and finding and reconnecting the mains water.
I also worked on the house m&e design, chased windows and on the wet Friday had an almighty faff on smart home technology.