Our first Hiccup

I received a call from our builder this morning. It went kinda like this:

"Hi Bec, it's Trav. Now I don't want you to panic but we have a problem."

So I immediately think in the one second before he continues these possible scenarios:

1. The whole house is riddled with white ants, or
2. He has had some sort of family emergency and can no longer work on our house, or
3. The house is on an aboriginal burial ground (not likely I guess but the thought ran through my mind).

It was none of the above. Turns out they found an old septic tank. An engineer had to be consulted about the removal. This sent me in to a slight panic as in my experience the word 'engineer' is generally interchangeable with 'this is going to cost a whole lot of money'.

Trav assured me that even though some extra cost was going to be incurred because of this, it shouldn't be too significant.

Thank goodness for that!

He also assured me that once all the digging was complete there would be no more surprises.

Let's just hope that they don't uncover that burial ground tomorrow.