Piling Challenge!

The contractors arrived with the auger to clean out the pile holes and due to the soft ground and the ground being completely waterlogged the hole are collapsing making it impossible to pour the concrete, plus we are now down to the water table which in this area is approx 2.3 meters
So now we have to drive a whole new set of piles using a pile driver to overcome this problem.
The Geo engineer didn't think this would be a problem and is reworking the loading calculations.
Let's hope that this will work as I'm getting a bit stressed over this holdup.

Bearers...

The 100 x 100 bearers have been delivered and have been stacked ready for installation, this is so I have no excuse for any delays.
They are really heavy as they wet, so had to drag them rather than lift, now have some new tracks on the lawn.
The framing is ordered and will be delivered at the end of this month (Sept) all I need now is for the contractor to re-drill the 16 remaining holes that collapsed in the storm.

The guard dog on duty.

The Start of the Foundations

The holes have been drilled for the wooden piles and over half of the piles are installed ready for the concrete to be poured.
Unfortunately we had an enormous storm and we had 3 months rain in 3 hours! the remaining holes caved in, it was a terrible mess with 20 holes needing to be drilled again, plus the services of a Geo Engineer to help with a solution, thankfully not too much to do, but we will now need to drill the holes down to 2 meters plus a lot more expensive concrete - oh, the joys of building.

The anchor piles (44) go down about 1 meter and yesterday checking the depth I dropped my tape, bother, my arm is not that long, had to hook it out with the end of my hammer then proceeded to get my head stuck under the prop, all very tricky...
The site is surrounded by security mesh, to keep Charlie (dog) out of harms way plus any wandering Hedgehogs.

Essential Tools...

The Site

Have started the earthworks with the underground pipes installed, with the building profile now in place.
The site is starting to look like a building site with lots of mud!!

The next job is to drill the holes for the piles and to setup the posts for concreting into the ground.