Benching

There was activity in our street Wednesday, we had trucks and tractors lining our street. It was lunch, and the guys had just finished benching another Wisdom home across the road, and at the time had the tractors parked next to our block while conducting some surveying. So I drove past Thursday lunchtime to check out the results, and nothing!!! Not even anyone around. It left us wondering why they didn't do both on the same day?


So we checked again on Friday lunch and they were back, this time in full swing on our block. We dropped in this morning (Saturday) to take some pictures of the end result:

Front view, you would think the block is flat from this view, not so!

Here we have the step down. The top level is benched at 19.50, the bottom level benched at 19.15. This is looking towards the front low side (where the cut is meant to be 0.11 metres). It looks alot more than this, especially the temporary vehicle access. We hope this is far from what the actual driveway will be (the garage floor will finish at 19.80, with the front street at 19.88, so we are expecting a relatively flat driveway.

Looking across to the front high side corner, the natural height of the land measures 20.80. So with the benching at 19.50, we have a 1.3 metre cut which falls away to about a 0.5 metre cut left of picture.We'll need a retaining wall here, but hopefully not 1.3 metres high once the slab and landscaping is done. I'm wondering if the toilet will survive some wandering teenage kids tonight haha! 

This is the back right 0.55 metre fill, looking back towards the front left. The back already falls away to the drain, the fill makes the fall even greater. So we are already thinking about our landscaping options here.

In the background of this picture is another Wisdom home under construction. This site was benched Wednesday and this morning (3 days later) they were drilling the pier holes. Pending weather, there is no reason why ours won't be done next week?