Retaining Wall Number 1 is Up!

Hi all. I thought I would post some photos of our first block wall. This wall runs across and back under our garage slab. This will be the only part of the house to rest on a slab. The remainder of the house will be on piers.

The cute little digger, excavating the U-shaped retaining wall

This will be the front of the retaining wall, running east-west across the block

Digging the foundations

Preparing the foundations for the block wall

This section steps back under the garage slab

The main front of the retaining wall (taken from above)

The big digger. At this stage the builders were waiting for the concrete truck to pour concrete into the block wall foundations

And the block wall is up! 

The corner cutting back in under the garage

Waiting to be waterproofed and backfilled

Our driveway will go where I'm standing, and run up to the garage. The slab will sit on top of the retained square.

These last pictures were taken on  25/6/13. Next step is water proofing the wall and then backfilling the gaps. Once that is completed, the garage slab will be poured. Yay!

Hopefully our back retaining wall (Retaining Wall #2) will start soon too and run concurrently with continuing site works (digging the piers and our side retaining walls). Hurrah for progress!