It's what dreams are made of and nightmares kindled: Most home owners aspire to it; some take a few tentative steps and fewer still are crazy enough to go the full hog! This blog shares some of the trials and tribulations of a major redevelopment of a 1950s home through a cataclysmic transformation which retains the best of the last Century while metamorposing the property into a design classic fit for today's living.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Gigantic mole hills

While we're still in the process of turning the site upside down, spare a thought for this bizarre sequence of event: After demolishing the structures we had the most perfect, level, plot. If it wasn't for the drains we could have started foundations straight away. Then everything was turned upside down with trenches being dug for the replacement drains on the perimeter of the new building. Now we have several sizeable mounds of A-grade clay soil covering the whole site. The guys know what they're a doing but it's a shame all that hard work levelling has been wiped out.