It rained this week. Cecilia Daly told us that it would rain. And my favourite weather girl didn't disappoint. In fact, the rain was really quite Biblical at times. Building homes in the rain is no fun; building in a monsoon is practically impossible.
But there has been progress this week. The joists are in place across the entire house and the extensions no longer has that open-air feel about it. The steel beam holding up the landing has been "refitted" and we're now ready to take the block work up another few courses.
The scaffolding is now in place to help the bricklayers get up to the dizzy heights required to build the first floor. I say dizzy when really what I mean is that if I had to climb up to a height of 8', I'd feel dizzy. I'm sure the brickies shan't keel over after a bout of vertigo at those meagre heights.
The next floor should take less than a week to put together then we are in a position to put the rafters in place (I guess) and the construction phases will be almost at an end. At that point, we will have the long-drawn out affair that is the kitting out. (Again, I'm guessing...)
And finally... our first bill has arrived from the builder. It gave me that vertigo feeling!!!
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