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THE FIRST REPORT OF HOW MUCH GROUND THERE ACTUALLY IS across the shelf. He was sent to find where the beams can physically stand and says they could be up to 2.60 m apart at all four stations, inside about 3 m. The design uses 1.600 and wants to keep it — the joists cantilever past the beams and that overhang is what keeps them light — so this is headroom rather than a change. It bears on a-18 and a-25, which have had one measured point between them since August. It also gives an approximate height or length for the toilet roof, consistent with the model either way, and a support base at the foot of the stair at 120 x 30 against the 140 x 35 we have drawn.

The first direct observation of the ground the deck's eight pads sit in: solid, and a pick will break it. It narrows a-24 from both ends — the material is competent and the hand-digging is feasible — without closing it, because nobody dug a hole and there is still no depth to competent ground and no bearing test. It also confirms the pads can stay where the setting-out table puts them, which matters more than it sounds, because ev-121 proposes a different spacing.

Closes a-24 and a-23 and substantially closes a-25. The pits are dug: nothing soft below and the sides stand, which is what the uplift case needed since it counts on side shear. The outside toilet's walls are one course of breezeblock and sound to build on, so the walkway beam bears on them as drawn and the span-past fallback is dropped. The shelf never falls more than 100 mm below the wall line and mainly rises, corroborating ev-117#r01 along the whole run. What it does NOT give is a level at the four rear column positions, which is what the rear column lengths are ordered from.

Three hand-measured dimensions for the front garden: 12.00 m, 7.30 m and 3.15 m. The only dimensional source for the garden.

Path spine from the terrace steps, dead lawn either side, the rendered raised planter, and the only glimpse in the batch of a recessed opening at the level below the ground floor.

The curved raised planter close up: stone-clad face, terracotta coping, Strelitzia reginae and rosemary, with the road railings behind.

Lime-washed citrus in a brick-edged bed, the brick-plinth-and-railing road boundary, and a hose lying on dead lawn — the whole of the current irrigation.

Mature Strelitzia nicolai against the east railings, brick soldier-course edging, a garden lamp post and the east path branch.

The east boundary in full: railings on a brick plinth with urn piers, the access road beyond in use for parking, hibiscus in flower, and the house’s arched window and balcony.

From the upper terrace looking down over the garden to the Mediterranean — the clearest evidence that the ground falls away south.

The terrace steps from the top: azulejo risers, steel handrail, jasmine and monstera under bougainvillea. The reverse of ev-005.

Elevated view of the whole garden: path fork, both lawn lobes, brick edging, the stepped east retaining wall, and irrigation poly in the terrace planter.

Best plan-like view. The frame the provisional front-garden geometry was traced from — shape and topology only, no dimensions.

Elevation of the house from the lawn: covered porch under the first-floor terrace, the stone-clad retaining wall holding the house terrace above lawn level, and cut rock behind.