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When neighbors speak to us, we now always say that we have started with the natural pool,

That looks like quite clayey soil (?)

That looks like quite clayey soil (?)

Good eye [emoji1303] A nicely layered stack of loam (old field) on solid sandstone bed. Backfilling with the excavated material is not possible, as it is not compactable, i.e. almost complete replacement of the soil - but we knew that beforehand and it is accounted for. At least, we expect few structural problems and probably settlement cracks will not be our biggest issue [emoji6]

Maybe it’s better if construction doesn’t start now. Winter is dead time for civil engineering. Too cold, too wet. There are no rules. Next to our second home, a small settlement is being built, all stone by stone, one company hasn’t worked for weeks, the next is building during heavy rain.

Is there any citable reference for this? The usual practice seems to be somehow different at least in our neighborhood - (different GUs)...

No, no reference.
But this was the case here with several.

I was surprised back then in our area why it did not continue. In hindsight, that was given as an explanation.
I suspect it has something to do with drying. Unlike the panel, it cannot dry across the entire surface.

Dear friends of house construction,

yesterday morning at sunrise (see upper left half of the picture) the carpenter first had to sweep away snow.

But then everything went very quickly in bright sunshine.