Stu and I arrived on site bright and early Monday morning.  The plant machinery of a dumper and an excavator followed shortly afterwards.  Our main focus for the start of the week was to clear the site, starting with the contest of tree v machine.  There were two Holly trees which needed to be removed, and although they put up a good fight, the digger won over in the end.  We then skimmed the top of the site, so we were left with a large mud plot.

We had a gentleman in on Tuesday morning to mark out the plot for us, putting marker pegs in to show the exterior walls and corners of the new build.  We had various lorries turning up to take our muck away, as quickly as we got the soil out, they removed it from site.  We also had a lorry deliver 10 tonnes of hardcore, so we could create a drive area to the plot, so as to assist the lorries with their deliveries onto site.

We had a half day on Thursday, as it was lashing it down with rain, and having just started on the new site this week, we had nowhere to hide.  But about an hour after arriving home, I looked out of the window to see clear blue skies, typical!

Friday, a day that will be remembered for a long time to come.  The plan was to expose the existing mains sewer pipe, so we could then cut into it and add our t connection on Monday morning.  Unfortunately as we were trying to find it, we heard a crack come from the earth, and after some more hand digging we found the pipe, and our worst fears came true as the pipe had a small crack in it which was leaking the pipes contents.  It was late Friday morning, and we were now against the clock to get the pipe fixed.  We raced off to Peterborough to get some more pipe and pipe fittings.  We were back on site early afternoon, and then the fun and games started!  The hole was filling up with the pipes contents, which was making it hard to see the pipe and especially where we needed to cut the pipe.  To cut a long story short, we got the pipe fixed and our t connection in, but Stu and I got well and truly covered in the contents of the pipe as we carried out the work, and boy did we smell!  The drive home in the van was one I would rather forget.  It was clothes off in the garden, and get hose piped down before entering the house!