Progress!

After some initial panicking and sweating about the builder deviating from the engineers drawings, we had the engineers in and they gave the foundations and the underpinning the thumbs up. (Underpinning, I soon found out, means excavating under an existing wall and then strenghthening and stabilising it with brick and concrete to make it strong enough, in our case, to carry the weight of three stories on top of it. You have to do this in sections to keep the wall stable.)

Hard to believe that this pic was taken 2 days ago!



And here's the start of another wall...


...and more progress on the other side