Garden Walls

The garden wall has risen. The gaps are for the fence posts for the fence that sits on top of the retaining wall. Beautiful bricks if I say so myself.

The garden side wall is rising

The garden side wall started to rise out of the ground yesterday, rain stopped play today but being Friday that isn't a problem as everyone appears to knock off early. We have good news, the steel beams are arriving on Monday all except for the curved beam which will take considerably longer. This is not a problem as the builders can continue with all the other beams and the brickwork can continue, the chippies should be on site the following week to start on the first floor joists all being well and of course the weather could play a factor. But all in all good news.

The lintels have arrived

The walls are still rising and the lintels have now arrived so the doors and window openings are taking shape. Still awaiting the steels, we have been told that they are on order. The side garden wall should take shape soon too.

A few more bricks

As you can see the walls are going up and things are moving along. The groundworkers have prepared the footings for the garden side wall and the brickies should get started on it next week. We have a delay with the build as we have a lot of steel work in the house and one of the steels is curved which apparently has a delay of 6 weeks as it is a specialist job, Birmingham has been mentioned as the place to get it done. Hopefully the delay will not be too long.

The inner walls start to take shape

After a fantastic weekend away in a Gothic Temple in Buckinghamshire,(Landmark Trust property) last picture, we have arrived back to see the inner walls taking shape. Breeze blocks certainly do rise quickly.

The outer walls start to rise.

Just look at how high the floor level is going to be, it should be around Brians elbow once the floor, the tiles and the insulation is

added on top.

The bricks are now going up too, (Ibstock golden purple) - looking good.

View

Views not bad either.

This is the view from the kitchen to be on the ground floor, bit overcast today. We should get a great view from upstairs once it has been built.