Walking in I saw Chris Murty, builder, then John Hatch, designer, and then Alan Dean the engineer. All in a huddle. In the excavated area. Looking puzzled. Not exactly a good look. The other person on the right of the photo is Garry, one of Chris' workers.
The dotted white line is the nominal rear of the house. The real issue here is the location of the sewer line. Chris is standing in the excavation which holds the sewer line; slightly behind him is supposed to be a retaining wall. But because of the width of the excavation for the sewer line, building the wall becomes complex and expensive.
Looking north from the SE corner sewer manhole. The white
lines correspond to the house walls, or the foundation edges.
I suspect it may be the latter, as that is the current project -
get the footings down.
The view to the south, from behind what will be the garage. This
image is from the same (eastern) side of the land as the above photo.
The bobcat driver was quite amazing - the pile of dirt was scooped
up and moved out of the way, leaving the grass behind, and undamaged!
From the same location as the above photo, but looking west. This
shows the dirt pile, growing with each bucket load from the
pile in the photo above.
Still looking for inspiration. Chris has another check of what's
behind the fence, looking for where the sewer line runs, or something.
Perhaps the floor plan (the white sheet on the left) will suggest a
better solution. At present, the suggestion is to squash the
house up a bit, moving the southern wall a bit north and out of harm's way.
You may have noticed in the previous page that the tree loppers left
the stumps in the ground. Well, here they are - a bit of mechanical
assistance, and out they come.
Building A Home
Cables And Footings
Nullabor