Week 1 of Building....

Ok, so in the first week we had the excavator come in and dig up the ground immediately behind the garage wall (to be under the deck). The plan was to have a room under the deck that we would be able to walk easily in and to use the space for storage. Inevitably, there was a problem and we could only get the ground dug to about mid body height. We were a bit upset by that but we had to accept it since to fix the problem we had would cost us heaps... so we will still have a storage area but we have to bend over in it.

During this first week it also happened to rain.... and there was a lot of rain and this has postponed the brickies from coming to put in the retaining wall... see photo of Dunk trying to divert the water!!!

The other things that happened in the first week was most of the timber arrived and the backyard is now classified as a timber yard. They also managed to start building part of the deck so it gave us a really good idea of the size it will be... HUGE!!! excellent! And they also started the frame work for the new kitchen (on the old porch area!)