Good progress.....

We now have a complete beam and block floor and the trenches around the lower courses of bricks have been back filled, even though the weather contrived (again) to delay things. The local council building inspector called to site on Thursday and passed the work done so far. (Hooray!)

The site looks more like a builders merchants at the moment with three different types of bricks, and the blocks for the inner walls, rather cluttering up the place. Still, Dean the brickie and his team should arrive on Tuesday and then we should see some real evidence of a building.

Its always a surprise to me how careless people can be when there's no-one around to complain. The blocks were delivered by one of these lorries with a crane on the back and the driver hoisted the packs of blocks over the Hares fence and onto the site. Fine, except that he placed one pack on a lump of concrete so the pack was tilting to one side. That was bad enough but he then lowered another pack on top of that to create a very dangerous situation. Concerned that someone would get hurt (and being the holder of the insurance policy for the site) I decided to do something about it so I went to site this morning to move the blocks in question. As soon as I cut the straps around the pack the blocks on the top row (well over 6 feet above ground level) fell to the ground. I've now moved the blocks into the centre of the site where they are out of the way, unlike most of the other packs which have been placed very annoyingly right where the brickie will be laying bricks/blocks. I can well understand how accidents happen on building sites - they're a minefield.

Off to Brookvale tomorrow to fill some of the holes in the drive - all the lorries have rather accelerated the wear and what were small holes have grown somewhat.

Jan & Rog