Happy Christmas and a very prosperous new year

Happy christmas to all the readers of the blog, hope ye will all be checking in in the new year once the real work has commenced its going to be a busy one!!!

Was on the way to work this morning and passing by the site, said i would take a photo of the sun rise on a lovely crisp christmas morning. I took it from my car i was too lazy/cold to get out!!!! Sentiments!

ESB Pole relocation

As you can see in the slideshow the pole is now open to the road due to the removal of the ditch i rang the ESB and got the phone number of the area enginner to contact him to get it moved, as it is a danger where it is now and the line was crossing over the site. To my surprise they had a new pole out in the field waiting to be put up three days later. I contacted the engineer again to make sure that we came up with a location of the new pole that would suit us both. I sent him an e-mail clearly marking where the permanent site entrance would be (a condition of planning as to where it is located) and drew where i thought would be the best location to erect the pole.
All was running smoothly, i was surprised to see when i got home the other day two poles slap bang in the middle of our new front gate!!!! Eircom were after sneaking in as well and putting up a pole!
Trying to get them relocated at the moment.

Stopping up for Christmas

Was going to try and organise a crowd and pour foundations for this weekend had forgotten about the builders holidays though. So now we will close the site off for the christmas and try and get back into once the holidays are over. Must secure the place too as we had a little incident there during the week somone turned the diesel tap on the bulldozer off. Must get some of that security fence panels €62 each

Progress GroundWorks

Oh Well this is starting to get frustrating, we started the Site on the 17th of last month. Saturday coming will be the fifth week and we still wont have foundations dug! Programme schedule gone straight out the window! I guess sometimes it pays to go with some one who is prepared to work full time, and is not doing the job as a favour/on the side. Will probably cost more in the long run we could potentially have the floors in by now if we had hired a man on a tracks machine for a week. I suppose we are not in a mad rush but it would be nice to have the foundations in before christmas.

Winter Weather....

Well looks like the winter is finally staring to hit, it is probably a bad time of year to start a site but we will get over that. The man with the jcb is doing it as a favour for my girlfriends father so he only appears on Saturdays! He has been there now for the last three!
I am informed that he is there today with a bulldozer, so hopefully we might be able to pour foundations this week or at least before christmas, can close the site down then until after the christmas. Hopefully the weather will be favourable in the new year and we can get a good run at it.
At the moment the only unexpected/unforseen we have had were that there was far more ground to be moved than we had expected once we had the level on site. When we removed the bend i thought i would need loads of fencing but we have built up a good size temporary bank, it offers storage for the soil and security (as can be seen in the pictures slideshow)The JCB man also had some good local connections for stone and concrete, so he has proved helpful.