Go!

We had a cold night last night and I didn’t sleep that well because I kept waking up with cold feet and couldn’t be bothered to get up and put some socks on. As a result I was still dozing at 9.00 am this morning when I was awoken by a vehicle engine. I thought originally that a truck or tractor had passed my caravan on the road but then realised that it had been the sound of a vehicle stopping and when I peaked out through the curtain a small truck containing two men was parked outside next to my car. I hardly expected things to start happening so quickly and I greeted them with a ‘Bonjour’ and then moved the Kia in case it would be in their way.

In the event I needn’t have bothered because it wouldn’t have been and what they had come to do didn’t take them very long anyway. They’d come to mark out the ground in preparation for when work starts on the foundations. They did it by carefully spraying red lines between the pegs whose positions Thomas had carefully checked at the end of last week, then removing them, placing three of them with red lines in between to show the house’s centre axis and then mounting level boards on poles in positions all around the foundations’ outer limits at what will be their final height.

And that appears to be it. It only took them just over a couple of hours before they disappeared again but I guess that everything’s now ready for the groundworkers to come onto site when they’re ready to go. Here’s a shot showing a small section of what they did.

And here are some more shots of the whole site taken from various positions.

It came as something of a surprise to me when they arrived this morning as I had thought that not much if anything would happen so soon after the ‘terrassement’ work. But I was wrong and for all I know the work on the foundations could now begin at any time. I have to say that as I have now booked my flights to and from the UK it would be great if they coincided with the period during which the foundation concrete was curing and little or no other work was being done. You never know, I might be pleasantly surprised 😉