Day 27 - Digging the Trench

Ryan is here for the week and it's a good week for him to be here. Lots is happening this week. Yesterday we put up a few more walls (in the garage area) and today we had the excavator in to dig us a trench. The trench is for the 'Teck' cable to supply the house with underground power (the black line in the above picture), the (white) water line, and the (orange) pipe for the telephone and cable. We discovered that the neighbour's water is connected to our shut off valve so after interrupting his shower (!), we had to get the city involved and with the city inspectors and plumbers needing to be on site, it ended up taking all day!

The excavator got the new power pole installed, the trench filled, and cleaned up the whole front yard. He did a really good job. Ryan and I also snapped all the lines inside the house where the interior walls will be. Tomorrow we need to sheet the rest of the exterior walls and get all the interior walls completed as the trusses will arrive on Thursday.