Today has been an interesting day. After Alex had finished his work the guy who was to mark out the stumps rocked up. After Kaz tried to explain to him what was going on with the plan, he set off to work. This was where he discovered that some of the trees that we had down the back of the property had to be cut down.... aparently the house stretched out WAY past even our rough estimates, so we are now without 2 plum trees and a nectarine tree - DAMN. Fortunately Alex was still about when this discovery was made so he made light work of cutting them down.
When I arrived home I got the tape measure out, to discover the measurements made by the mark out dude were a tad confusing. Our house totals 21.3 metres in length, taking into account a 1.4 metre verandah. The guy has marked in from the footpath 6.5 metres, and from the back fence another 6.2 metres as the length of our house. Seeing the block is 39.5 metres long, rough mathematics suggest he has measured out for 26.8 metre house - 5.5 metres more than it should be!!! Hopefully tomorrow when we move to the next phase of the build then everything will come together fine - however we are now fearful our fruit trees (around 20 +years old) have been cut for no reason........
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