Subdivision Civil Works Diary
I have another thread that describes the process up until here. A quick recap is that we moved a 90 year old Queenslander to make way for a 10-lot subdivision. Finally, civil works have begun on site, so I'm starting a new thread to keep the other one from becoming too long.
The civil works were supposed to start the day after I returned from a short trip overseas, and I did my best to have everything sorted out before I left. I returned to find that council had run into a snag in quoting to connect our sewer main, as an existing inlet not shown on the latest council sewer plans does not leave enough room for ours to be added as well. So, I've spent the last few days problem-solving around how we can connect our new sewer and we had at one stage 8 guys standing around the open manhole cover. As of this afternoon, we got council go-ahead with our proposed solution, which will involve us decommissioning the offending branch line and reconnected the two existing inlets into our new sewer main. (That's the short version of the story).
Tree loppers were booked for Wednesday, but ended up turning up on Saturday for half a day before the rain came, and then came back today to continue.
Here are views for before and after the the tree were removed from the old horse paddock.
You can now see our house for the trees again.
And this afternoon, a truck dropped off an excavator,
a bobcat, and about 200 m worth of sewer piping.
I have another thread that describes the process up until here. A quick recap is that we moved a 90 year old Queenslander to make way for a 10-lot subdivision. Finally, civil works have begun on site, so I'm starting a new thread to keep the other one from becoming too long.
The civil works were supposed to start the day after I returned from a short trip overseas, and I did my best to have everything sorted out before I left. I returned to find that council had run into a snag in quoting to connect our sewer main, as an existing inlet not shown on the latest council sewer plans does not leave enough room for ours to be added as well. So, I've spent the last few days problem-solving around how we can connect our new sewer and we had at one stage 8 guys standing around the open manhole cover. As of this afternoon, we got council go-ahead with our proposed solution, which will involve us decommissioning the offending branch line and reconnected the two existing inlets into our new sewer main. (That's the short version of the story).
Tree loppers were booked for Wednesday, but ended up turning up on Saturday for half a day before the rain came, and then came back today to continue.
Here are views for before and after the the tree were removed from the old horse paddock.
You can now see our house for the trees again.
And this afternoon, a truck dropped off an excavator,
a bobcat, and about 200 m worth of sewer piping.
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