Shingle is poured (Thursday)

Today I woke up to find yet another tipper truck over the back garden. This time carrying stone/shingle. The builder spent the day loading wheelbarrows of shingle and filling the base. He also fixed the rodding eye pipe (which incidently had filled with concrete, despite being bunged. So a good job he disconnected the pipe!). The rodding eye pipe now passes over the concrete footing, but under the shingle (and under the concrete lintel).

Tipper truck arrives with shingle

Here you can see the channel and path for the rodding eye pipe

Infilling begins

The end of the day

The rodding eye

Tomorrow the building inspector will arrive to sign off the base and footings before it gets concreted over in the afternoon. From Saturday we shall have a base which we can walk on and our dogs can come home!