Work on the 4 Bed New Build got back under way this week as the snow finally disappeared and the weather turned in our favour, giving us dry and fairly mild conditions for the week.  Wayne made a start on getting the exterior and internal block work up to window height all the way around the perimeter of the build.  Stu was working the cement mixer, keeping Wayne’s muck boards topped up with cement.  I tried to stay one step ahead of Wayne by trying to keep the blocks loaded out as he progressed with his work.  When I got the opportunity I picked up the trowel myself and assisted Wayne with laying the blocks.

On Wednesday we put the window and door lintels into position, and while they were going off, we moved inside the build to make a start on the internal block work.  I went round, measured up and marked out for the walls and set about putting the wall fixings into position.  By the end of Thursday we had got four courses of blocks down for most of the internal walls, and laid a course of blocks onto the lintels.  I arranged with David from EH Smith to have the rep come out to measure up for the joists next week, which is planned for Tuesday.  I also placed the order for the structural steel to be delivered next week.

On Friday Wayne took a day of rest off as he was feeling the effects on his wrist and back of working on the heavy blocks all week.  That left Stu and I to take a delivery of 19 pallets of the heavy blocks, which then needed to be loaded out on to the scaffold ready for Wayne on Monday.  We spent around four hours loading out the blocks, loading out 10 of the 19 pallets, and that was with the aid of having a JCB Telehandler to move them around the site with.  So much for Wayne and his comments of “that will only take a couple of hours tops”, yeah right Wayne!  Stu and I could equally have been mistaken for Brad Pitt out of Fight Club after all that heavy lifting and carrying!!  We also got the inside of the build loaded out with bricks and blocks ready for Wayne, we had a good tidy and a sweep up and everything was looking tidy and ship shape for next week.  It was nice to get back to working a full week, and it was good to see things progressing well with the build.  Fingers crossed for more of the same next week.