Nearly done!

The excavations are almost complete. Tomorrow we'll shift another three or four truck-loads of rubble and earth and then its time for foundations.

During the day the guys have staked out the corners of the new extension and a couple of faint white lines mark the walls. A new drain has been found to the front of the house and after a bit of head-scratching by the professionals, followed by the helpful intervention and rational reasoning of a marketeer, it turned out to be a massive manhole serving one single rainwater downpipe from the opposite end of the house. The good news is that we may be able to utilise this for the extension as the rear manhole is being relocated further to the back of the garden.

Over the next few days the team will lay new drains and start creating the "founds".