On Monday, Wayne continued to build up the first floor exterior block work with Stu’s assistance, leaving me to finish off putting in the joists.  Unfortunately the joist manufacturer had made a minor mistake, meaning eight of the joists were the in-correct size and were too short in length.  But the manufacturer was going to send out some metal joist hangers for next day delivery that would put things right.

On Tuesday we had a delivery of 1 tonne bags of sand and four pallets more of blocks.  I was lifting the first bag of sand into place with the JCB Telehandler when I heard a loud crack.  I thought nothing if it, until moving the Telehandler forwards a few metres to see the front right wheel at a 90 degree angle to the front left, not good!  I called out an engineer to repair it, but as it turns out it was out of action for the rest of the week.

Wayne and Stu were continuing to work on the exterior block work, having the front and rear elevations nearly up to plate height by the end of play Thursday.  I got the last of the joists in, fixed all the strapping into place, and then had the joy of laying cut blocks between the joists on the internal walls to stop them from moving about.  Measure, cut, lay block.  A slow and tedious process, but one of them jobs just needs doing!  We decided to take Friday off as we needed more blocks on the scaffold, and with the Telehandler out of action, Stu and I didn’t fancy the thought of doing 200 trips up and down a 5 metre ladder each, with a block on our shoulders.  So we will wait till Monday when the Telehandler should be back in action.  My back feels better already!