Not Borg, just slow & low shoveling.
This is just a trench to carry our electrical mains cable from the other side of our drive and into our house. We already have electricity in the house but we’re making this change for a semi practical/cosmetic reason – our current electrical meters are sitting on Portland cement which is bad for our old lime mortar walls and needs to be removed so Derrick can parge with lime mortar, also it looks a bit ugly. In the photo below you can see the difference in color between the grey Portland and the beige lime mortar
The plan is to move the meters to the other side of the drive and have them on a panel a few feet above the ground. Also Derrick suggested we make the ground floor more grandiose by adding quoins (pronounced coin) to the corners on either side off the door, which I think will look pretty nice. Photos below illustrate an isolated meter board as well as an example of quoins which by the way I had never even heard of before.
Again, I’m glad we beefed up the footings as this trench goes under our walls and into the house.
Although the sandy soil causes foundation issues, it does appear to make digging trenches easy.
I like the quoins. They have them a lot in Slovakia.
Yes it does indeed make digging very easy, not like the clay at parents. Interesting about the quoins in Slovakia 🙂