Friday 13 October......Earthworks now half way!!!!

The earthworks are still current with around 250 cubic metres already gone.

A problem with a water service was solved by South East Water. Excellent, helpful staff!!!!
We now have a service to the new property and the existing service has been shut off.

British Telecom performed well too, with their crew arriving on the agreed day and erecting a new telegraph pole in the road and diverting the service.

Huf arrived to inspect the site and that didn't go so well. Apparently back in March the structural engineers said we would need a thicker sub-base, 400mm instead of the normal 200mm and a geo-fabric on the formation. That would have been fine but nobody bothered to tell the client (me) and my contract with Andy (the ground contractor) is a fixed price based on the original specification.
So now we have variations to the contract straight away!!!!!

Added to which, Huf produced a programme which showed the basement being started in week 48. The programme I have been sent shows the work starting 7 weeks earlier!!! If that remains the case we will not be in until May 07 and we have another 2 months in rented accomodation...not a good prospect!!!!!