On Wednesday 11th of March, Heli happened to have driven past the block on her way home. Unbeknownst to us, an excavator had been delivered and the site scrape had been started!
Yesterday (Thursday), the scrape had been completed, and by 8am the excavator had been loaded and was on it's way. What remained was the outline of the house, which is all of a sudden all-too-real and very very big! Mathematically, the house occupies 34% of the size of the block. However, it feels, quite viscerally actually, much bigger. I'm sure it will look even bigger when the slab has been poured, which should be finished within three weeks.
The remnants of a cow bone was also unearthed in the site cut (hence the title of this post).
Now that the build has actually (officially, when the site cut completed, on the Thursday) started, the level of excitement has certainly increased! Now can actually see and touch stuff!
Once the excavator had gone, the other two trucks that were waiting did their thing. The first of which dropped off the porta-loo, and second then put the fence in place and the crossover protection.
Happy days.
Congratulations on Site Start!! exciting times ahead!
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