Day 115. Earth out; soakaway; level lines

We've had Harry, Paul and Pete hard at work all day. Somehow it doesn't look so different from yesterday but quite a lot has really been done.

Harry and Pete mostly excavated the soil in the square inside the foundations down to about concrete level (removing about 1' of soil) with Harry in the digger of course and Paul driving the dumper. I think it all gets dumped up around Bennys Way somewhere...

Meanwhile, Pete was looking at setting up for doing the bricklaying. A bit of digging, and a lot of carefully setting up his level lines and markers.

When I came back home just before 4 they were tidying up. There was a new scar across the back garden which is a drain to the soakaway that will take the new roof drains. At some point there will have to be a soakaway in the front too (why couldn't that have been laid through the foundations to the back?). As Harry points out, this is the last time we'll be able to drive a digger into the back.

Ian and Bob were due on site some time to talk about the pavement and other stuff.