Finally, a fence for Dave!

Our poor rear neighbour David has been so patient with us, waiting for his back wall to be redone after we ripped his fence down to put our pool in.  It's taken much longer than we thought to get to this point, so we are very grateful to have had such an understanding and genuinely lovely man as our affected neighbour.

And, as of today, we have wall!

Muz experienced a day in the life of a brickie (well, sort of) to help our bricklayer Vern do the footings for the wall.  It's 23 metres in length, so it was a big effort!  Here he is showing off his handy work after several hours of digging, barrowing and pouring. 

 

And here's the AFTER shot taken today.  Vern and his team are about 80% finished here.

 

The wall has piers and face brick on the other side (neighbour Dave's side), as we will eventually be rendering our side and he won't be, so his side looks lovely - hopefully he's happy and it was worth the wait!

The other exciting development is that the set-out for the slab has been done and the plumbing work etc all layed.  Here are some shots showing how it's looking with the footings dug out.  Because of a sewer line that happens to run close to the back of the house (lucky us!), we also have concrete piling going in.

The slab is now only a day or two away!