Landslide

So I couldn't bring myself to blog about the landslide at the time, it was simply terrifying to find out that after heavy rain all day on Thursday about 6 tonnes of soil simply fell from the bank.  That's equivalent to a double decker bus just plummeting into you back garden. Bad Times.

This pic is the pile of mud that slipped. 

Underneath that mud is meshed cage of steel-work that the builders had spent all day fixing in place for the next concrete pour which was due on Friday.  It was crushed.  :(

So, Friday morning the builders arrived bright and early to shift the double decker bus and check the state of the steel-work.  They had to remove and re-lay a big section of it.

Some squashed steel after the landslide

Friday afternoon, I left work early to get home just in time for the second concrete pour; Big crane with a Big pump, Big lorry full of concrete and a Big grab lorry picking up mud all at the same time...Lorry-tastic! Things were looking up.

A bit of reinforced steel

More steel

Concrete goes in! (22 tonnes today) 

This will be the slab

 that supports the retaining wall.

Finishing off the concrete...
Incidentally, can you notice whats missing?
That's right... the extension foundations...
They were buried with the mud from the  landslide.

So, a challenging few days, but at the end of week one, we have had 140 ish tonnes of mud taken out, and 50 tonnes of concrete put in. In double decker buses that's 23 buses out and just over 8 in.  And the really good news of the week was that the building inspector turned up moments before the landslip and signed of our extension foundations. Hooray!

Bring on week two!