This week was a labour intensive week, but also a straight forward week.  Between me, Stu, John, J, Dan and G it was a case of getting the remaining exterior walls rendered.  Everything went to plan, the weather continued to be kind to us with glorious blue skies and warm sunshine.  Better late than never!  Stu and J were on the mixers; me and G were getting the muck up onto the scaffold and onto the boards, and John and Dan were doing the rendering.  By the Thursday lunch time the rendering was finished and I was really pleased with the level of finish John and Dan had produced, plus the way we had all worked together as a team to get the job done as efficiently as we could.

That means on the Friday Stu and I could make a start with the painting, starting with the under coat.  Normally I don’t like painting but as this was only going to be a two to three day job I didn’t mind so much, and with the lovely weather we were having it was a joy to be working outside.  In the morning it was a struggle as we got the harder to get too gable walls done and out of the way, leaving the easier front and rear walls to do in the pm.  By the end of the day we had all the walls done except the front wall which I thought was good going after our slow start.  So on Monday we can get the last of the under coat on, then get the top coat on and really start to see the new build take on a new life.  A nice change from all that boring block work to look at.