Hedgehog

Here is a prickly visitor to our foundations trench!

Foundations

We are appreciating having Stuart and Andy working at the house this week. The foundations have finally been dug out by Andy and because we were worried that a readymix lorry would not get down the drive they mixed up the concrete by hand. Stuart has set out the corners of the blockwork so things should start going up quickly next week.

Another change has been the widening of the hallway - we wanted to make more of an entrance! It was started last week - Stuart built a new wall in the current kitchen (the room that will be an office. Then we inserted an RSJ to take the weight of the floor above, and today Andy knocked the old wall down.

Stuart and Andy are here

We now have some more hands at work. Stuart's work at our friends Peter & Jo's  is coming to an end and he is switching over to work at ours - a couple of Thursdays so far, accompanied by by his son Andy, and he was here today. They put in an RSJ to replace where the chimney breast was, and Andy has been digging foundations for the extension and Stuart has been putting in lintels in the existing house where we are going to put in new windows.