Status week 40 - 2005

September 26, 2005

Future house siteAs of week 40 Hughie has finished the road and cleared the building site. The next step is digging the trenches which are needed for the water connection.

Hughie created the road by digging “borrow pits” A borrow pit is pit from which he extracts rock (huge boulders for the road foundation and smaller pieces to create the road surface) which he uses to create the road. Once the road is completed, the soil taken to create the road will be used to fill up the borrow pits again. Within a 6 to 12 months, the borrow pits will all be covered with grass again.

Check the pictures below with the site plan where you can clearly see the access road running down on the right side of the plot (looking at it from the B884) and sharply turning left towards the house site.

Access roadAccess road, take 2Access road, take 3Access road, take 4

Posted by roger | Filed Under Groundwork, House Project 

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