Another week of clearing the site, jacob and Alex doing all the manual labour and me sitting in an excavator with a concrete breaker (pecker) on the front smashing up as much concrete as possible, as these peckers are expensive £100.00 per day on top of the hire of a digger excavator, still a lot better than doing it with a kango. Managed to get 20 ton of rubble taken away by a grab lorry, a much quicker and more economical way of clearing a site, with skips from £120.00 up to £180. each depending on size, a grab lorry takes 3 skip loads for £150.00

two more grab lorry loads to go we think, so another 2 weeks of part time clearing then a final push with an excavator to get the rubble pushed to the front of site.

here are pictures of Jacob and Alex doing their best YMCA impression. And one of the site on its own.

Hi and welcome to the sudbury erection, for those who were led to this blog by mistake because of the name (sorry wrong kind of site) the photo's on the right are the front and rear views of the site where two victorian style houses are going to be built by me, with the help of various contractors and friends, i havnt got a time limit for the build so as not to put myself under any presure you will not see the words " i want to be in by christmas" i have no idea why people say that, maybe Kevin McCloud makes people say it on grand designs just to make it interesting. It will be finished when its finished, budgets and weather permitting.

For self builders who are managing their own projects, and read all the various books and web sites in order to get an idea of how much this will cost i hope i will be able to help to keep costs down and show you that it is possible to knock thousands of the estimates that these books and web pages estimate.

Here is a photo of the building originally on the site, it was an RAF meeting place called contact hall built in the 1950's.