[drgav2005]

I like to be getting back to first world problems Gav.  In the meantime I am trying my best to avoid any purchases from 'Chy-na'. It is not easy but needs must.

 

How is the build going? Any more plans or progress, or has that all ground to a halt with the pesky microbe?

[Evil Diesel]

We are trying to finish the London scheme then start up here. Going quite slowly. In normal times we would have been out of it in 4 weeks.

 

Had the ground investigation reports back for mine which was fairly good - no need for piles (if we do the footings in the summer). The soakaway test was a disaster though. Looks like we will have to use a swale for the surface water into the nearest Fen drain - thankfully there is one at one corner of the site.

[drgav2005]

We are trying to finish the London scheme then start up here. Going quite slowly. In normal times we would have been out of it in 4 weeks.

 

Had the ground investigation reports back for mine which was fairly good - no need for piles (if we do the footings in the summer). The soakaway test was a disaster though. Looks like we will have to use a swale for the surface water into the nearest Fen drain - thankfully there is one at one corner of the site.

 

Sounds good!

 

Has the weather been decent down there? It didn't stop raining for about 3 months up here and we never got an opportunity to get our outside rendering done as it was so wet. Then since lock-down, the sun has been out every day and everything is as dry as a bone - ah, the irony!

 

Hopefully the ground will be nice and dry for you to get the footings done. Avoiding piles (either type  ) would be good! Swale could be quite a nice feature, as well as practical, I'm guessing.

[Evil Diesel]

Trouble is that it will have to run right in front of the rear hedge making it a pain to maintain.

 

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We had about 3 weeks of rain delays in February just as we were trying to get the roof laid - a right pain.  Wind and watertight now so the weather is irrelevant.