House Project - First Digging

We hire a digger and bobcat and start the excavations! Digger is a real breeze to operate. Too many years with flight sims and joysticks.

First stage is to remove the soil pushing against the dodgey conservatory. This was one of the reasons the conservatory was moving down the hill as it was being pushed by the soil every time it rained.

Nothing hard there. Just paint a line and dig it up.

Then, its on to tackle the side retaining that is ready to fall over. As its next to a neighbours driveway we could only remove enough soil to halt the wall falling over. Then the funs over and its out with the bobcat to clean up. Thats a fun little implement!










This left us with a huge pile of soil to try and cover over the back section. There was just so much of it! Note for anybody thinking of doing anything like this. Soil 'fluffs up' quite considerably. Expect a large mountain afterwards!