Retaining continues...

Went back to the block today to continue  with our retaining walls, only to find out post holes filled with water from the recent rain. 

With the assistance of a water pump we finally got underway around lunch time. Unfortunately I missed getting a video of Jay trying to clear a blockage in the pump without turning the drive unit motor off... An upside to my day :) 

Starting the retaining walls

Today we started our retaining walls by digging 12 x 1.2m holes in order to stand a 2.4m post in it. Thank god for dingos!!! Too bad about the weather! 12 holes to go! 

We hit quite a bit of rock which delayed us, however on average we got one hole every 15-20 mins. Unfortunately we had a set back with thunder storms and rain this morning, hopefully tomorrow will be better. 

Fill Removal

Today saw the bulk of our excess fill removed. Due to the changes in the amount MJH have requested to complete another site survey to ensure it has been cut properly. This will occur on Thursday, hopefully with a result by Friday afternoon as we are planning on completing our required retaining walls on the weekend. We shall see how that goes! Once the retaining walls are done, we will organize for the removal of the rest of the excess fill. 

Excavations

It took almost 6 months to get through council and we had a lot of issues, however at the end of August we finally got notification that it was complete. 

Our block was pegged out on the 16th of September, with excavations supposed to begin the following week. Issues occurred whereby our 'lovely' neighbors had placed their bricks and sand on our block, which delayed our excavations by a week - like we needed any more delays. 

Excavations occurred on Friday the 23rd of September, and the approx 175 tonne of fill to be removed was actually found to be around 750 tonne. This means our removal cost climbs from $1100 to $15000. A huge difference, and some more unwelcome delays. 

The site has been handed back to us for the removal of fill, and construction of retaining walls. These were supposed to be 20m on the left side and 27m on the right side. We marked it all out over the weekend and from what we can tell it should be 16m on the left, and 12.5m on the right. A large difference to what MJH had in the contract.