Documenting my house builds
The engineer has been to site to check it all out. We now wait for a DCP test as the soil wasn’t looking great for us to build the foundations on – this means two things: more time and more money.
But I have been assured that this is one of the few variables in the construction process that we cannot plan for entirely.
The day has arrived and the men are at work. Finally the digging begins. Maybe we’ll find hidden treasure underground – I am hoping we find nothing but solid ground.
It feels like this moment has taken about 2 years too long but the wait is/was worth it. Structure done in 6-8 months if all goes well. Then the finishing.
Step 1 is almost complete. The site is now pretty much ready for the building work to begin.
We couldn’t save the Strelitzia tree as it was much too big to move (bigger than originally thought) and there doesn’t seem to be a huge demand for the poor things.
I employed the services of Bruce Beyer and his Co-Creators at Beyer Honig landscapes. Great people doing good things. He also started the Peace Garden in Woodstock. 
I thought I should put up some photos of the site before we start hacking at it. New “official” start date is now March 17th 2010.
If all things go according to plan I should soon be posting pics of my foundations.
In preparation for the site clearing and house building, I am getting someone in to have a look at this enormous Strelitzia tree (Strelitzia nicolai). It is in the middle of where my lounge will be.
I might save a portion of it and re-plant it in my yard, but it is off to a new home – the plants find it easy to settle into a new home if handled properly. I have good tree people on the case.
Next up on things to go are some roof tiles that were left behind from the previous house that once occupied both my plot and the one it was subdivided from next door.
They too need to find a new home. Any takers?
