{"id":18747,"date":"2022-02-22T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18747"},"modified":"2022-02-22T23:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:08:04","slug":"its-official-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/its-official-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s official"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much to my surprise, Thomas, the surveyor from my house builder, turned up again this morning. He was surprised to see all my stakes in place and although I don’t think that he had come to place any of his own, I think that they came in useful for him because the purpose of his visit was to measure the differences in the heights of each corner of the house in order to gauge how the land will need to be adjusted to create a level platform for the house to stand on.<\/p>\n

So he laughed and said, ‘Let’s see how accurate they are’, and we then worked together with his gps positioning device to accurately place all of the stakes exactly in their correct positions. In fact he was quite impressed because the first few were only a few centimetres out and the rest were only out by at most a few tens of centimetres because (a) I had turned the house slightly anticlockwise and (b) hadn’t got the 45\u00b0 degree bend in the middle quite right.<\/p>\n

I was very pleased with the outcome because the small changes that we made moved the back corner of the house slightly further out from under the trees and with a couple more branches removed, as I mentioned in a previous post, I’ll be able to almost<\/em> avoid having a problem with falling leaves and acorns. Even so, we both agreed that I’ll need to place screens in my guttering to avoid the rainwater pipes and soakaways becoming blocked.<\/p>\n

So the positions of my stakes are now official. I tried taking some more photographs to create some images showing the finished house from different angles but without great success. It then dawned on me that you can only create accurately scaled composite images with the correct perspective angles if the ‘cameras’ used to shoot the actual surroundings and the model have identical focal length lenses ie you can’t combine shots where one is taken with a wide-angle and the other with a telephoto.<\/p>\n

So I did the best I could and here are some more shots of my house as it will be taken from three different angles. First from the south-west.<\/p>\n

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Secondly, from the south-east.<\/p>\n

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Finally from the east showing the back of the house.<\/p>\n

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We talked about how the flat platform will be created and this will be done by lowering the front right-hand corner to about the level of the corner on the other side and then using earth removed when the foundations are dug out to raise the back. Thomas said that they will create a level area outside at the back of the house for a patio or terrace the northern end of which will be in the form of a gentle slope down onto the garden.<\/p>\n

I am really pleased with how things are going and can’t wait for the work to begin, which should be very soon \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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