Not much to report this week. The builders haven't been here at all, so there hasn't been a lot of progress. The only thing that's changed is that the bricklayer came and - well, obviously he laid the bricks!! It looks a lot better now. The good thing is that it looks exactly the same as the bricks going around the rest of the house - hopefully when it's finished the extension will fit in nicely with the rest of the house and not look out of place. The bad thing (for me, anyway) is that the only construction that happened the entire week had to happen during the 1 day I was away all day!! So I missed out on watching it and didn't get to take any in-progress photos. I've always loved photos of brick walls being laid.
The first photo was taken from the backyard on the north side of the house. I've found that for now this is probably the best view to show construction.
From east side: unfortunately I can't get the whole thing in from this angle, but at least you can see it in better perspective. The electricity box is going to have to be moved before the builders begin laying putting in the walls, and apparently the electrician who is going to do the job is away on holidays for a couple of weeks... so I don't think the builders are going to do a lot of work in the near future.
When the truck came to deliver the bricks and a load of sand, we had to dismantle part of the fence so that the truck could dump the sand directly onto the construction site. We took down the whole section just behind where the pile of sand is dumped. At the moment it is only held by 2 screws - on on each side - because we think we may have to take it down again to allow direct access to the site. The only other way for vehicles to access the construction site is to go around behind the garage and through a small gap between the trees. A very small gap, in fact. Only the smallest of bobcats would fit through there, which is why we had to dismantle the fence so the tip truck could just tip out its load of sand through the gap.
Hmmm.... looks like you construction might take a while.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit you seem to be a very good blogger at the moment, you are always updating, which is good. I don't think I would be able to update a blog as often as you do; my life is way too busy.
~Mystery Girl~