The treatment plant is installed and the only remaining evidence of the carnage is a little series of manhole covers and some pipes to be cut down to ground level. Even these seem a bit intrusive but once the area is grassed and landscaped they should blend in.
The soakaway built out of milk crates is installed and this means that we can, at last, channel rainwater away from the house so things might start to dry out.
The service trenches and ducting are installed to the highway verge for utilities to take over.
So we have no more deep excavations outstanding.
The poor garden now needs a little time to recover before we re-spread the topsoil and hardcore the path and patio areas.
We have had very disappointing news about the electricity supply. Despite having extracted a large fortune from us Norwest are unable to give us a connection date. They have to follow their "procedures" and haven't even started yet. When we first contacted them two weeks ago to request a supply they advised four to six weeks. When we checked today they advised six to eight weeks. However they have to send out wayleave notices and they haven't done so yet. We asked to whom they need to send notices to be told the Highways. We replied that Highways don't own the verges as they are common land so wayleaves are not required. Their response is that their "procedures" require that they have to send them out anyway and that they might require a road closure as well. This could take sixteen weeks. Absolute nonsense, I could dig the trench in the verge in a couple of days but am not allowed to. "In by Easter" is now out of the question.
There is significant depression here and I'm not talking about the weather.
Still we've some lovely new oak doors, the painting is almost complete and work starts on the porch tomorrow.
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