Day 65: Council building inspectors are stupid

When I come back, the trench in our garden is down to something like 1.8m. And the man from the council wants it down to 2.4m! Thats taller than the kitchen is going to be. Its gross, its gratuitous, its a waste of cement and its a waste of CO2 emissions. And all because he is worried that our hedge outfront might grow taller than 8m. Bozo! All the more bozo because its perfectly clear that the current depth is deep below the topsoil on a clear solid clay layer. Hmm, well, we shall see.

Meanwhile, some more tiles have turned up in the back, but not yet on the walls.

The (newly uploaded) image shows the full glory of 1.8m deep foundations (happily, later backfilled down to a more sensible 1m). As you can see its down the the Galt Clay which is deep and thick and even. Quite why *anyone* would want to go a further 0.6m down into this I don't know. Its not easy to see the depth from this photo... the object, foreshortened, in the hole is a long spade. The pipe is about 1m down: its a rainwater drain, we think.