Good progress during week 2

We have just finished our second week on site and are making good progress. What was only two weeks ago a field is now clearly a building site.

Top soil stripped from site

The foundations were poured on Friday 4th March and the under building will get started next week. Needed to pour an additional 15m3 concrete due to some large soft spots but apart from that haven't come across any major problems yet. Surface water soakaway is in and we have had our engineer out to look at it several times due to some concerns with the high water table in the area. Things look good though and I think it is just due to the fact that we have hard granite only a meter or two below the soil surface and I think the water tends to run over the top of this. This time of year the water table is usually at its highest so most of the time it should only be better. Hope the rain water harvesting tank will act as a good buffer for this sytem as well.

Surface water soak away and field drain

So far we are still pretty much on schedule, its amazing how quickly things seem to be going. Only 6 weeks until the SIPs structure is due to go up but I may see if we can pull this forward a week. Looks like we will be back in Aberdeen for this happening as we transition from Stavanger to Copenhagen and a new job. It will be exciting to see the structure going up.

Looks like I have a driller & GSHP installer lined up again after the company who was going to do the work went out of business (thats the second company who had gone to the wall that we had selected - maybe I am doing something wrong - but thankfully we are not out any money this time round ). Should get our bore holes drilled at the end of March ahead of the structure going up.