Liam arrived with the Lambert Cavalry today and brought along a micro digger for support! The reason for the cavalry was that we discovered we would need to dig down a total of 45cms from the finished floor height to allow us to put in all the required sub-floor to meet building regulations. The concrete removal made up about 15-20cm of this, and with a 100sq metres to cover, digging the clay/soil out was going to be impossible with spades.
In reality after starting we discovered that we needed to dig down deeper in places to reach something firm upon which we could start to put hard core back in!
I must confess I started to have real doubts about my sanity watching a digger drive around the inside of my house myself and others wheel barrowed out hundreds and hundreds of barrows of heavy clay and soil. It is really totally surreal.
My hands, arms and body aches from days of what feels like pushing a barrow arround. For someone who usually spends his time in front of a PC, this was hard.
Tammy was also there today pushing a barrow, and fortunately we had Scott from Lamberts on hand to help, and he was managing two scoop loads to my one, but hey, I am not proud! His arms were twice the size of mine, hardly surprising when he works out 3 times a week and is a part-time bouncer!!
We also had the concrete removed today from site thanks to Lamberts and their ace-driver John Kavanagh (hope I spelt that correctly!) I am almost blaise used seeing massive plant vehicles all over the place, hey, what’s another lorry?!
I cannot imagine how we would have done this using spades, the patio is long gone under inches of clay and this is only one room! Arrgghhh!
(Actually it is also good fun and I trust the people around me who are a great bunch of people to be working with!)
Tags: Farmhouse Renovation, GSD Lambert and Sons, John Kavanagh, Lambert Civil Engineering, Liam Lambert, Micro Digger, Scott
Categories: Farmhouse Renovation, Home Improvements, Posts with Photos
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