15th November..Basement almost complete.

Its strange to think, as I drive up to the site, that back in Germany people are beavering away in the factory making my house!!!!

The factory is in Hartenfels, a village almost totally dedicated to making these houses and it makes a fascinating visit to see the show houses there and the factory itself where wood goes in one end and complete panels with doors, windows, and service ducting come out the the other, ready for erection.

Anyway back here in the UK we have only the concrete pour for the basement roof to complete (that's tommorow) and the land drainage around the basement together with the tanking and insulation to make it all cosy and nice.

The basement team return to Germany tommorow afternoon and their next one will be in Frankfurt so that's really local for them.......they'll be able to lie in..... till 4am in the mornings perhaps?

Andy and Baz return on Friday to complete the backfilling. Now, our only question is have we saved enough spoil from the dig to complete the backfilling or, a worse case scenario......we have to buy back some of the spoil that we paid vast sums of money to put in that big hole elsewhere in Sussex some weeks ago. Oh No, that will not be the case will it???