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We have got our plans approved and we have now started building.
We have found a great concreter and block layer (Mike Pascoe from Witta) that is doing the foundations work for us. Once Mike set out where the concrete pad will go we realised that the one retaining block wall we have would have been 2 meters tall. So we decided to dig into the hill by about one meter. This will mean a bit more earthworks but on the positive side, that concrete pad will be on a very strong foundation of bed rock.
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While all of the foundations are done, I have been busy cutting down some trees that we have now found would be too close to the house. One of them was a large spotted gum of which we have kept the straighter and larger branches to use as hand rails on the veranda and the steps.
We have also kept the staight part of the trunk in the hope that we'll find someone with a portable sawmill who would make step treads out of it.
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