The First Hurdle Has Us..

... Stumped

Well not really, but the issue is a stump. Right on the line of where the footings are supposed to be poured for the shed.

I shall call him Stumpy!

Siteworks started yesterday, and were due to be finished today, but we hit a snag stump. A quick dash out to site to measure the location, indicates the tree wasn't shown on the site plan by the builder, so we think its probably an old tree which had fallen long ago, and was cleared in the builders siteworks, but having been already down, the earthworker would not have known to dig up a stump. So, the shed siteworks company has contacted another local company, which happens to be the same company the builder used for the earthworks, to come in and remove the stump with larger equipment than the bobcat he has. The driveway has been cleared though, and the gravel looks good, even if it is only supposed to be temporary!

Shed Driveway

This will mean we have to put the concrete back a few days, and there will be an extra cost which we hadn't accounted for. All in all, this stump is painful! 

In better news, the bricklayers seem to have made more progress this week than in the past 3 weeks combined!

We now have almost all the external bricks up, and some of the internals. We have a Master Bedroom, Bedroom 2, Study, Games, and the passage wall to Bath, Laundry, Activity (minus the dividing walls between them)

Progress, finally!

The roof timbers have also been delivered, so lets hope that as soon as the brickies finish the roofies are booked to start straight away, so they don't sit there and risk warping.

Tiiiiiimberrrrrrrr!

We also have a new site supervisor who we are meeting with next Tuesday afternoon. He seems to have taken action on a couple of items I've brought to his attention so far, so hopefully he continues and keeps the trades rocketing along.

Fingers Crossed!