We Are Now Officially Landscaping

Today is the day that we started really preparing the Drive.  Bob and his digger arrived first thing to finalise the chalk walls in preparation to digging the footings the  little digger was going to be busy.

As a man to do things properly Bob dug out a trench bout 30 cm deep and 50 cm wide for the footings - here you see that my head is abot 30 cm below ground level. it looks like the start of some sort of cave...

Having dug out the foundations Bob then started with Liam's help to mix a lot of concrete he reckons that today they mixed around 3 tonnes of the stuff
You will see the now very big pile of chalk that shows how substatial the footings will be.

These two pictures show the footings being laid, this carried on all day with Bob the digger digging the trench for the footings andLiam both mixing up the Concrete,( lots of ballast and and cement got used)  as he poured the concrete  and the footings were gradually laid round the edge of the new drive - I agree that to describe what we have here as a new drive is maybe premature but we do progress!

So after 1 day of hard Crafting we have most of the footings in place. With reinforcement rods stuck in to the footings that will link in to the breezeblock retaining wall to hold up the earth - later the facing bricks will form the visible face and top of the wall - it will be very interesting to follow what happens.

My own  contribution today was to go and buy the required cables for the lighting so that this would be available for when the brickies come to build the wall. On the advice of Richard the electrician I went to Contact Electrical Supplies who were able to provide me with the two cables i needed - Flexible 3 core and aoured cable need to check with Richard if i need to buy a sensor as well.