Deck construction

Our builders are now on holidays and they have been kind enough to hand the site over to us for deck construction. Our construction certificate came through two days ago so now we can start digging the footings for the deck. To make life easy we hired this mini excavator as we knew we would have to go down quite a long way as most of the soil in the area of the footings had already been disturbed when they were laying our stormwater pipes and installing the water tank. Unfortunately though, everywhere we wanted to put the footings had multiple pipes passing through - so a quick re-design later and we found some spots to put the footings and work continued. One of our footings had to go down 2 metres though and because of the proximity of pipe work this had to be dug mostly by hand!

Here are some photos of our accomplished excavator drivers (Dad, Stephen and Erina)!