Some photos from the backyard project...
1. Action Man -- snapped in mid-swing while digging out behind the retaining wall...
2. ...and the resulting excavation (note the ag pipe snaking its way along the bottom):
3. The piles of soil, stones, bricks and rock from behind the wall:
4. After lifting off the concrete cover, I discovered a gaping cavity under the stormwater drain, presumably hollowed out by water escaping from the gap in the join to the underground pipe --- this may be the origin of some of the water that's getting under the house. The planned fix for this shoddy set-up is a large pit covered in metallic grate.
5. Two tonnes of blue metal aggregate: conveniently deposited on our front drive way, then carted -- at considerable inconvenience -- round to the back by means of the two plastic buckets in the foreground...
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