The plot keeps transforming

After two weeks of rain, we could finally move several tons of rock, mud and soil and create a low platform to lay the copper tubes into the ground for the underground geo-thermal heating systems. Now that low flat area will be filled up again to the level of the lower terrace. The high steep slope will be levelling off more gently downwards, and the builders will integrate some path with steps and a staircase down into the lower part of the garden. The side of the house that is still comletely open at the moment (south), will disappear behind that garden-slope. At least that's the plan... Difficult to imagine at this stage!



At the front of the house, Iker, the man with the bulldozer, has filled the gap between the mountain and the house, (which was built into a hole in the mountain slope), so now we have a platform almost at the correct height of the entrance, which is the upper floor.



That way, the builders could get close enough to the house to move the big wooden beams for the roof structure and the front facade, which they have started setting up already. Looking at the house from this side, the lower floor is now completely "underground".



At the other side of the house (north), the bulldozer has created the platform for the carport. From the top, the slope comes down, stabilised by big rocks - this slope and the next slope going down will hopefully be one day some kind of herb-garden and flower beds, possibly with some trees!



At the bottom of that, they have already installed the tanks for the rainwater collector, as well as the two tanks for the dirtwater-cleaning system. The ground will be filled up until it levels off with the top of the tank-access.



The truth is that at this stage, things look quite horrible - steep slopes, large holes, tons of mud and dirt and rock, and it is difficult in places to imagine what it will look like once it is finished, but after all, this is only a point in time, and we are looking forward to the day it stops raining, so the builders can get on with things and start on the roof structure and then on the floor between the two storeys!