The extension has commenced.
Bits of wood and string lines behind us, the day before the mud room came down and the piles came up (the driveway).
Looking out the glass of the back door at the emptied mud room. That was a really useful space.
The monster pile driver is in the yard.
There are two of them in NZ.
Of course, on the day it arrived, on an even bigger truck, the local electricity people were working in the street with an abundance of vehicles and cones and people. Taken from the bottom of our drive.
As the pile driver was being unloaded at the bottom of our drive, two workers were working on a platform up a cherry picker, directly opposite. Couldn't have been worse timing. The whole street was blocked while this thing swung around and began to clank up the drive.
Piles in and bearers on today. It's taking shape.
Today was interesting and busy as. To summarise, in order of events:
👷cars out and into the park's carpark next door, before builders arrive at 7.30. This will be every day. Walk dog around the park.
👷three builders arrive in three vehicles
👷pile digger clanks out of yard and is gone, leaving a few cracks in the driveway (sigh)
👷internet guy arrives to move the external fibre box
👷Carol and Plum head out to Tawa to take Pat to the Hutt etc
👷one of the builders leaves with a truck of broken concrete to landfill
👷plumber arrives to rough in the underground pipes (and finds one of the piles has gone smack through a sewerage pipe - so glad we didn't know that had happened)
👷engineer arrives to check the piles that have had to go in further from the house than the plans said, because the pile driver couldn't get close enough to bash them
👷another internet guy arrives to fix the fault that developed after previous guy left. Fixed.
👷District nurse arrives to do Greg's meds (bro Greg staying for a few days post op)
👷Carol and dog arrive back. Everybody relaxes for a bit.
👷Carol drives Greg home. Mish takes dog for walk.
👷Mish makes delicious bolognese for dinner.
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