driveway: take 2

Well the ROL licence has come through and we're onto the last bit of the driveway, pedestrian crossing and layback onto the street.

Yesterday we closed a lane for 5 hours while the concreters pulled up the old layback, excavated the new space, formed it up and put down trench mesh. Unfortunately, they ran out of time to pour the concrete within the RTA's road closure time frame and had to finish off the job this morning...


I'll take a finished picture at lunchtime - they should be finished by then!

The plumbers found a whole new set of problems including a disused water mains pipe sitting directly under the current water main - right in the path of our storm water connection, turning a 1 day job would turn into 2 day marathon.Check out the video of the plumber cutting through the cast iron pipe and his apprentice knocking through the storm water pit.






(section of the old cast iron pipe cut out by the plumbers)