External Drainage complete

The external drainage (hydraulics) is now complete. There's still a mound of soil on the slab and it seems to have gotten bigger.

This pile of dirt just seems to be getting bigger every time.

Do you think they could have atleast did a better job putting the soil back in? Mini pot holes everywhere not exactly all that safe to walk around without tripping or getting your shoe stuck.

The First Pit

Along side the right side of the house is the first drainage pit. From a distance it looks ok, as you get closer you can see how large and unsightly it is. Unfortunately one of those things we could not avoid due a block sloping to the rear. There's a white porous membrane on top, I'm guessing to stop dirt falling in during the construction phase.

 

Sewer inspection point

This is the sewer inspection point which I am told we will every now and then need to poke a stick into to remove any blockages, or we could pay a plumber to do this. It'll have to be levelled once we do the landscaping.

Too my surprise they had removed all the soil around the tree and restored the temporary fencing. See my earlier post about this issue.

Still a whole lot of soil which needs to be removed, I hope they aren't going to charge us for this.

Another surprise I found was that they had broken a major branch on one of the smaller trees. On closer inspection it looks like this was intentional as the mini digger didn't have enough room. There are some saw marks and the I'm guessing the digger did the rest of the job. Maybe it's just me but I though the back yard was big enough to avoid stuff like this. Hmm looking closer at the broken branch, it's entirely bare so they probably did me a favour.

The Second Pit

The second pit is smack bang in the middle of the backyard where the absorption trench is. The trench extends almost end to end and you can roughly see how dam large this is. At each end you can see a pipe sticking up, these are the cleaning eyes. These pipes will also need to be levelled to the ground. You can't build over the absorption trench, so we are already restricted to where we can put a granny flat (if we decided to build one). Back yard is now starting to feel very small. In addition to this, the trench is only 30cm deep so we can't plant any large trees over it. Looks like it'll only be garden beds.