Day 3 - Excavation - Another problem

It seemed that we were making good progress. The builder had the digger in and made a start on the excavation of the back garden. There is a LOT of earth to come out and we are hiring grab loader lorries to come and take the earth away.

Things were going fine till about 11am this morning when I got a call from the builder. The digger had gone through the main water supply pipe that serviced both our house and the neighbour to the left. Mains water supply normally comes from the road through the front garden and into the house, our supply seems to be coming from the walkway behind our back garden.

Had to rush to buy some bottled water for the neighbour to keep him going until we got the pipe fixed. Luckily he was at work during the day. We could not get the right fitment for the pipe so had to do a temporary fix.

Spoke to the neighbour and he was really good about it and said that it was not a problem. Still feel bad about inconveniencing him. Hope we are still on speaking terms by the time the house is finished.