Rock excavation

After the long Christmas and New Years break, the excavator machine came in and started to dig quite a bit of sandstone out of the ground to match the pitch and slope of the site to the house design. As the main part of our old house was build right on top of sandstone foundation, the rock excavation is expected to take a good few days even with the huge driller, digger, and huge circular saw.

Rock excavation cost is separate to our build tender, but it was within our expectation so there was not too much of a big surprise.

The huge circular saw to cut through the rocks (round thing at top of photo).

Concrete pool shell completed

Our pool people built framework out of wood panels and some sort of foam to pour the concrete into. After the concrete was poured they took the frame away so now we have grey, rectangle hole with some edging around it plus a vertical section at the far side for the waterfall feature wall. Mr Sasanqua had to go to the site everyday for the first 10 days to water the concrete so that it won't dry too quickly and crack.