Bank Holiday Monday: Holiday.. who mentioned holiday. I was making the profiles for the windows.
These are wooden templates that the builders build round and are popped out when the windows are fitted.
Week 3
16 April 2001
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Bank Holiday Monday: Holiday.. who mentioned holiday. I was making the profiles for the windows. These are wooden templates that the builders build round and are popped out when the windows are fitted. |
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The finished works of art. |
| I also had to knock up some covers for the existing drains because we will be using them for a while and they are going to be hard cored over. |
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Tuesday: More deliveries
The first lot of blocks arrive.
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Along with a small dumper and digger and some hardcore. |
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Insulation for the floor. |
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A wacker plate and the child labour was again utilised.
He will have a few stories to tell when the Easter holidays are over and he's back at school. |
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By the end of Tuesday the hard core was down. |
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Wednesday and the builders were greeted with our poor effort of producing hardcore. You wouldn't believe that was a pickup full. The poor pickup was nearly pulling a wheelie. |
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By Wednesday evening the Radon membrane was down. |
Our poor garden, it looks like a building site.
Oh I forgot....it is a building site.
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Thursday and No builders but we did have some sand delivered. |
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Beards and sand don't mix. |
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Friday and I had moved the blocks in off the road by now and still no sign of any bricks. The builders merchants hadn't booked the order and couldn't deliver so it took a couple of runs in Suze's Dads pickup to get the stuff. |
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Finally some bricks and damp proofing arrived. |
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Next the concrete arrived. |
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Saturday morning and I was dispatched, first thing, right across town to Travis Perkins the builders merchants to track down a guy called Pete who knew what we wanted.
I couldn't find a Pete and nobody knew of his whereabouts.
A couple of phone calls later it became apparent that I was in fact at the wrong
place and there was another Travis Perkins just down the road from where we live
and sure enough there was a guy called Pete who worked there who knew what we
wanted.
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Most of Saturday afternoon was spent chipping off the render for the
wall ties to attatch to. Unfortunately the bricks got looser
and looser the higher up I got.
This was a pig of a job but luckily our mate Jezz had popped round and gave me a tip about scouring out groves with an angle grinder. |
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Sunday Morning and we took this rare opportunity to get some work out of Kris. |
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Then it was back to the concrete mixer to top up the cavities. |
Off the the Aviator at Sywell for lunch to round off the week.
