Day 7 - digging the post foundations

Today was a light work day. We had marked out the location of the 15 posts at the perimeter of the houses with chalk, and the extent of the excavation needed at each post, but when the operator of the digger started to excavate he felt that the depth of 1.5m that was originally specified by the engineer was too deep, especially in such hard soil, so he stopped. It was also felt that such deep excavations, would have required a trench which would have increased the risk of the sides of the excavation collapsing. After consulting with the engineer, we are going to go with shallower foundations under these posts.