Well it's started. 9am Monday (21st Jan) morning saw the arrival of the builders. The boss man arrived to introduce the two guys who will start the work, one of them being his son.
While we are clearing the garage ready for them to take the roof off, they are keeping themselves busy digging the patio to the rear of the house ready to lay the footings for the single storey rear extension.
I got home from work after dark and the two guys had long since gone. Well I wasn't expecting them to work in the dark. I looked out the back and noticed they had brought their toys along too. A mini dumper truck and a mini digger.
Tuesday morning (22nd Jan) and they were there at 8am. They had a bit of problem getting the dumper truck started but the digger got to work digging up what used to be our patio. I was inside working on clearing the rubbish is the garage when I heard a cry and call from one to the other "you'd better come and have a look at this". I decided it sounded like something I should have a look at too. They had a found a manhole to the dainage system. The problem is that it puts the drains a little closer to where the wall is going to be than we were expecting. A bit of head scratching and the elder of the two announced it was for the building inspector to see. So they removed the small amount of rubble that had fallen into the hole and covered it over. I decided to walk away. It's not my problem but I expect I will have to pay for the solution.
As I left for work, The digging was on going.
While we are clearing the garage ready for them to take the roof off, they are keeping themselves busy digging the patio to the rear of the house ready to lay the footings for the single storey rear extension.
I got home from work after dark and the two guys had long since gone. Well I wasn't expecting them to work in the dark. I looked out the back and noticed they had brought their toys along too. A mini dumper truck and a mini digger.
Tuesday morning (22nd Jan) and they were there at 8am. They had a bit of problem getting the dumper truck started but the digger got to work digging up what used to be our patio. I was inside working on clearing the rubbish is the garage when I heard a cry and call from one to the other "you'd better come and have a look at this". I decided it sounded like something I should have a look at too. They had a found a manhole to the dainage system. The problem is that it puts the drains a little closer to where the wall is going to be than we were expecting. A bit of head scratching and the elder of the two announced it was for the building inspector to see. So they removed the small amount of rubble that had fallen into the hole and covered it over. I decided to walk away. It's not my problem but I expect I will have to pay for the solution.
As I left for work, The digging was on going.