More time goes by. I’m thinking that houses are like icebergs .. 95% of them are underground. Although we are now seeing walls go up we are still working on the groundworks, with another 10 days or so to go.
The piles went in on the South side ~ 4m deep .. and fortunately hit good enough ground. Beams and slabs are being made on-site (steel frames, shuttering and more concrete) to join them to the current foundations. We have also laid the lower slab to the garage. It looks like we’ve got past the problems of the foundations. I’ve appreciated the house being on a (15o) slope has added hugely to the foundations cost in complexity and process.
The services trench between the garage and house was 50% dug (the store is in the way for the rest), filled in, dug again, water/gas/electricity/ethernet laid and filled in again to allow the scaffolding around the LGF (lower ground floor). It’ll need to be dug again (for the third time) for the drainage. We’re seeing the different trades eg groundworks, brickies getting in the way of each other.
The brickies make progress around the house to the point that scaffolding is needed. Their work looks good, but they only work in good weather .. which in the UK means they spend half their time in the pub.
Weather warnings .. heavy rain and floods this week means the brickies are in the pub, the groundworkers are sodden and the site is a quagmire. Ang/I looked at the forecast and booked a flight back to Ibiza for a week.
The windows sourcing seems more settled, we’re getting quotes for the staircase, budgets from electricians and plumbers and started designing/sourcing the kitchen.
In the wet weather I’ve had an almighty techno-faff prototyping a home control system. I now have a number of devices connected to a network, mqtt server and homeassistant on a odroid embedded computer that provides the automation, UI frontend and iphone app.