We started the week by putting in and fixing the structural steel post to its formed concrete base and then putting in the first of the two structural RSJ’s. On Tuesday we got the second RSJ up and into position (thankfully!). Dane then set about strapping and fixing the post to the wall and once
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This week was all about getting the extension water tight and then doing the structural opening. We started the week by stripping out the dining room so it was ready for the knocking through later in the week. The window and french door were being delivered into the merchants on Tuesday, so we had a
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Our roof tiles were delivered into the merchants on Friday and we picked them up on our way to work on Monday morning. Once on site we set about laying the roof felt, fixing the batons and then made a start on tiling. We also had the building inspector visit the site to sign off
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It was back to work after a nice Christmas and New Year break. On the run up to Christmas and between Christmas and New Year Richard the brickie was cracking on with things while the weather was in his favour. On our return all the interior and exterior block work was all done meaning Dane
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After a nice week off we were back to work starting on a single storey kitchen/diner extension in Great Cambourne. Monday was about getting the site set up and getting the first of the material orders in the pipe line. On Tuesday we had the skips, digger and dumper delivered so we could make a
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We had a nice easy week this week, or that was supposed to be the plan! We started the week in Hardwick finishing off a bathroom refurbishment. On Monday Dane and I finished all the tiling, fitted the shower and plumbed in and fitted the sink unit. On Tuesday we carried out the last of
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We started on a new bathroom refurbishment this week in Hardwick near Cambridge. Our first job on the Monday was to remove the existing bathroom suite and pretty much strip the room back to bare walls and pipe work. In the afternoon we made up our list of required materials and went off shopping. On
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We have had an enforced quiet time over the last couple of weeks as we wait to start a new bathroom refurbishment job in Hardwick near Cambridge which we start this week. We did one last day at Alconbury as we finished off some minor snagging issues and then cleared down the site of all
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We finished our Alconbury kitchen/diner extension this week, but earlier in the week we were out and about doing a few smaller jobs that were in our diary. On Monday we were hanging a couple of new internal doors for an older lady in Sawtry, and on the Tuesday we were doing some insurance work
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We spent this week doing the landscape gardening which consisted of laying a large area of paving slabs on Monday, making up some timber raised beds, making a concrete slab base for a green house and running in a paving slab path down the side of the house on Tuesday and on the Wednesday we
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