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Monday, and the sunshine was back with us again. Wayne made a start on finishing the last of the gable end brick work. While Stu looked after Wayne, I made a start on dressing the lead on the roof. Unfortunately the rain came back on the Tuesday, so we couldn’t finish the work we started on Monday, so we all dropped back in doors and layed the chipboard flooring on the first floor. I then got prices for plasterboard, insulation and the CLS stud work timber. David form EH Smith came in the cheapest as usual, so I placed my order, and arranged delivery for the Wednesday. In the afternoon we had the Cellotex floor insulation, sand and cement delivered ready for Dave the Plasterer to screed the floor on the Thursday.
Wayne was not on site on Wednesday so Stu and I set about putting down the damp proof membrane on the ground floor area, cut to size and layed the Cellotex floor insulation, and finished off by rolling out the chicken wire. Everything was now ready for Dave the following day. But before we left we had the pleasure of getting 30 sheets of plasterboard and 10 rolls of insulation that had been delivered up onto the first floor! Wayne certainly knows when to take a day off!
Thursday was a pain in the bum for me; it was just one of those days! Wayne and Stu set about finishing the roof work, but we needed some more lead, so I had to shoot back to the lock up to pick some more up. When I got back to site, Stu had noticed that some of the ridge tiles that we had delivered were the wrong size, so I then had to go to Huntingdon to swap them for the correct size. Then when I got back, Dave the Plasterer wasn’t sure if he would have enough sand to finish the floor screed, it was touch and go. So I then went back to Huntingdon for a second time to get some more sand so he could finish the job. When I got back, Wayne and Stu had layed and pointed up the ridge tiles and were making a start on the decorative tiles that are going on the front of the extension. We then realised that we were some of a particular size of tile missing, so I had to go back to Huntingdon for a third time to get the tiles we needed! What a day, and I still had to go to the builders merchants in Peterborough on the way home.
Friday, Wayne and Stu set about fixing the rest of the timber baton, and fixing the decorative tiles while I set about making up the timber frame stud work for the bedrooms on the first floor. It was a good day, as Wayne and Stu virtually had all the tile work finished, while I just had the bathroom stud wall to finish the following week, so a good end to the week.
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