After the road was done the digger came to work on the site. Well, first we cleared it from trees, cleaned the surface and decided the exact place for the house.
Then we had a man come to take coordinates of the place of the house for the municipality map.
Site cleared from trees. Photo taken on the 6th of July.
Almost all rocks in place. Photo taken on the 11th of July. A big change!
Then we had the digger come in. He/It scraped the surface, took the stumps and stones away to the side of the road with a tractor and trailer and then leveled the area and made the spot of the house slope down from the side of the house 3 meters away all directions so that the rain water flows away from the house instead of going underneath it. Then Mick marked the house spot again and the spots for the 9 big rocks. He did it with string, sticks, nails, a level and some help.
For the last few days the digger guy has dug the foundation. So digging, filling it with smallish stones, then laying huge rocks on top. The house will come on top of the rocks so quite high.
All the time that this was happening we had our dear helpers peeling, clearing trees, peeling, building walls to the shed, peeling, moving logs, peeling, sharpening the peelers, peeling, building a rain cover for the peeled logs and peeling.
Have only just got onto Your Michael & Marya it is typical of the two of you the amount of work you have completed in such a short time I would love to come over for a time & contribute would I could with my limited skills in building, but I can do bullock work. Keep up the good work Love Danny Vaughan Australia
ReplyDeleteThanks Danny, you are welcome to come see us any time and bullockin is a good talent and needed as well. I hope your summer is better weather than our summer here, just rain all the time.
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