Day 4 - Service Trenches

Today saw the first of the digging with the ground workers opting to warm up on the service trench that runs up the driveway. This trench will house mains water pipes and electricity and telephone cables, connecting the house to the outside world.

As you can see, we have, as expected, encountered the Fenland water table at around 800mm into the ground...

We'll be bringing in pumps for tomorrow as we've got to go down to 2.5m to install the Rainwater Harvester which we'll have to strap to concrete footings to prevent it from bobbing out of the ground when it's empty!