On Monday we decided to shutter the footings as there was a strong chance of rain and we didn’t want the footing walls to collapse in on themselves. We pulled the last length of the trench to finish things off, but things weren’t going to plan. We kept digging down but we soon started to
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Monday was another bank holiday, so on the Tuesday and the Wednesday Dane and I went about getting the new site set up. This involved travelling about moving tools and materials, organizing the toilet hire, digger and dumper delivery, contacting Building Control, organizing material prices and deliveries and putting together a proposed work schedule for
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After finishing up at Hampton we move on to Alconbury near Huntingdon to start a new single storey extension and garage conversion this week. So next week the blog will be back up and running on a weekly basis and you can follow the progress of me and Dane, when Dane’s not on Facebook anyway!
I am a little bit behind with my blog at the moment. I had a weekend away only to return with a tummy bug that had been passed onto me. So last Monday afternoon after a morning of will I, won’t I be sick, I had to call it a day and spend the afternoon
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On Monday I had a little trip down to Harlow again to pick up some more of the coloured mortar mix we are using on this current job while Dane continued fixing the new metal stud work system in place in preparation for plaster boarding. John the brickie was on site on Tuesday to create
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Across the week we insulated between the internal roof timbers with Celotex and then put on a cross layer of Celotex. We then foil taped all the joints and then set about plaster boarding the vaulted ceiling. Towards the end of the week we started to fix the metal stud work system in the extension
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Over the last couple of weeks the brick and block work has all been completed and the roof has gone on. The roof was a cut roof so it was constructed by me and Dane. The felt baton and tiles have all gone on, as well as the two electric Velux windows that we fitted.
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This was the week we put in the two large steel lintels which were going to support the existing house brick and block wall and create the kitchen opening into the extension. First thing was to get our hands on eight acro props and strong boys plus an alloy tower so we could work safely
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Unfortunately we lost the first two days of the week to rain, but we were all back on site on the Wednesday, with Andy and Liam continuing with the brick and block work, while Dane and I ran in the rainwater tank hose pipe and connections and also installed the tank pump. Once that was
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Andy and Liam the brickies were on site on Monday getting themselves set up and making a start by getting the brick and block work up to damp. While they did that Dane and I took up some of the decking so we could action the last rain water down pipe run from the garage
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