The crushed concrete piling mat being scraped away.

The retaining wall is built of hollow precast  concrete blocks.

These blocks are laid over reinforcing bars, then filled with insitu concrete.

Dive, Dive, Dive!

Sebastian assembling one of the three rainwater storage tanks.

The laser level reflector.

The concrete pour for the retaining wall footing.

Digging out for the footing of the retaining wall, which will be linked to the rear capping beam.

The rainwater storage tanks ready to be set into the ground.

Each one will hold 3,750 litres of water, to be used for flushing the WCs and watering the gardens.

The boys spreading out the second load of concrete for the garage slab.

Chris, Sebastian, Marcin and Veli.

The garage slab being poured.

Marcin.
His trampoline is the steel mesh which will reinforce the garage slab.

A bee "gite" spotted on our holiday in France.

Marcin in the manhole.

The boys getting ready for the pouring of the concrete for the garage floor slab.

Marcin (digger driver and foreman), Anna and one month old Iwo make a site visit.

A view of the site from the south.

The setting-out plan.

This enables Marcin to accurately set out the groundworks and drainage.

The outgoing drainage pipes (brown) and incoming mains services ducts (black) are being cast into the front capping beam.

The reinforcing cages in position.

Lifting the reinforcing cages into place for the front capping beam.

The concrete being pumped into the shuttering.

The concrete pour for the rear capping beam.

Marcin levels the concrete of the capping beam.

The concrete pour.