Week 17 - 22nd Nov - Screed

8:30am on Monday and a cement mixer load of screed is delivered to the material store that is our front garden. It's then barrowed into the house and laid level. Another load on Tuesday morning and hey presto we have a floor...well almost, the levels were not quite consistent through the house so they used a bot more than anticipated so the porch is still to be finished off with a manual mix of sharp sand and cement, which I've arranged to be delivered on Thursday.

Trell, the ground workers, are also back on site this week and next to dig in the drainage, electrics and water. The soakway design uses Aquasole units (expensive milk crates!) over a 15m squared area to cope with the large roof area (you are not allowed to use rubble any more).

Just as we are speeding along along comes the snow so no screed in the porch this week and the bricklayers will not be back as mortar will not set when it is too cold. Inside is still pushing on and the dryliners have almost finished upstairs and we have taken out the crash desk where the stairs are going to go so they can dry line the walls in this area.

Our 2nd fix joinery is booked in for next week so more material to find a home for!! but we have space inside now the floor is down.

The carpenters have been in this week and cut in the extra window we decided to have in the play room and it now makes this room really light so I think is was the right decision to get this done sooner rather than later.

Been a busy week this week on Friday we have vans backed up way down the drive with Trell on site, the heating company were back to get the pipes for the ground source heat pump into the house and also Evander, the glazers, in to template up the four glass triangles in the front window.

Lets hope the cold snap does not delay things too much but at least the kids are enjoying the snow and we have enough trades people on site for a good snowball fight!!!