Day 17 - Flooded Trenches

Work began in earnest this morning on the foundations, but very quickly it became aparent that we had a problem. The heavy rain over the weekend together with the high water conditions in general combined to flood out the trenches almost as soon as they were dug.

I was called out to an emergency meeting with my structural engineer to assess the options. Luckily it wasn't as bad as we had thought and, with a strict regime of pumping and shuttering, we should be able to pour the foundations in four or five sections.

I'll be out again tomorrow to see how they got on with the first concrete load!