Day 193. Holes!
Today was a day of much activity, or at least activity with visible results. It saw the return of Paul and Pete the bricklayer.
Paul did a lot of work around tidying up and dumping junk into the skip (not aided by it being the wrong way round...) so things look much better. He also sorted out the interior of the side extension which had accumulated all sorts of stuff piled around.
Pete started off figuring out where the hole from the side into the loft was to go. There is rather more than reading plans involved in this, he has to choose which course of bricks to go to and indeed work out where the ceilings are. Ian came down to consult; I went into the loft to move stuff away from the wall and remembered the beam that runs across at the end; that didn't constrain things too much. We ended up with a smaller hole than hoped for but big enough I hope; the hole is there and the lintels in place.
At some point some heavy joinery turned up: the frames for the side, front and back. I helped Paul carry the two back right angle bits to the back; this gave me my first taste of we-have-no-back-access-anymore, as we took them via Dot. In theory we could have gone through the field of course. They are big though.
pm, Pete was hacking at the front of the house, and has removed 1/2 of the width in the outer course of bricks below the kitchen windowsill. But this can't be knocked through till we're secure.
Carpenters are due tomorrow for the joinery; roofers thurs?
Paul did a lot of work around tidying up and dumping junk into the skip (not aided by it being the wrong way round...) so things look much better. He also sorted out the interior of the side extension which had accumulated all sorts of stuff piled around.
Pete started off figuring out where the hole from the side into the loft was to go. There is rather more than reading plans involved in this, he has to choose which course of bricks to go to and indeed work out where the ceilings are. Ian came down to consult; I went into the loft to move stuff away from the wall and remembered the beam that runs across at the end; that didn't constrain things too much. We ended up with a smaller hole than hoped for but big enough I hope; the hole is there and the lintels in place.
At some point some heavy joinery turned up: the frames for the side, front and back. I helped Paul carry the two back right angle bits to the back; this gave me my first taste of we-have-no-back-access-anymore, as we took them via Dot. In theory we could have gone through the field of course. They are big though.
pm, Pete was hacking at the front of the house, and has removed 1/2 of the width in the outer course of bricks below the kitchen windowsill. But this can't be knocked through till we're secure.
Carpenters are due tomorrow for the joinery; roofers thurs?
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