Turning soil

24th September 2013

On 22nd September I received a phone call from the SS informing me that excavation would occur on 24th September. He also stated that we would have about 30 tonne of excess soil on our block after the cut and fill to get rid of.! I was shocked by this as our land is relatively flat, being retained already by the developer. I had forgotten that the contract stated that excess soil is to be removed by the owner. I guess I didn't think too much about it previously as I didn't think we would have any excess. The SS said the grass had grown a lot and mowing it might help.

So up I ran to the back shed and pulled out our lawn mower and my dads lawn mower. We loaded them in the back of days Nissan and drove down to the block. We mowed the entire 560sqm. It looked superb after it had been mowed, and was the neatest block in the street!

On 24th I went out and watched the excavation. I had arranged for a local company to take away the excess soil which was a lot cheaper than what MJH would do it for. It turned out that our mowing really helped and only 1 truck load was required to be taken away, which was 13 tonne. We were stoked as it only costs $220. It took 1 hour for our block to be excavated. I thought that was very quick. We didn't hit any rock to our relief as that would again be extra. The universe was on our side :)