<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1163" alt="house-ring-beam" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/house-ring-beam.jpg" width="200" height="150" />The house footings are developing. Dave &amp; Lucie went up yesterday to the site and helpfully took some photos of our plot. The process is to build up trenches (made from orange plastic), place metal frames between the piles and then pour concrete over the frames to create a reinforced beam between each pile. This forms a complete ring structure upon which the timber frame will sit.

It's always a good sign to see something coming out of the ground however this element of the build has cost us a lot more than originally quoted because the piles went further into the ground than originally anticipated. They stopped piling when they reached 10 metres.