Week 13: 'The brickies are back'

The past few weeks have been painfully slow progress on site - mainly down to snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures.  Bernhard and the boys had been eager to make a start but there was no way they could mix mortar and expect it to set safely when 'it's Baltic outside'.

"...just like icing a cake"

"many hands make light work"

Joe breaks the ice on a frozen water bucket

With an increase in temperature on Monday this week a team of brickies arrived back on site and got to work like a team 'possessed'.  By the end of the week they've pretty much laid out all of the ground floor walls and doorways. 

It's not a building site without a Lucozade bottle

The view of the ground floor from high above Joe's bedroom

Dougie from PAN builders has also been able to confirm the dimensions for the first floor joists and get them ordered for a few weeks time.

The brickies 'crack on next week' and we should see the walls continue to rise and the window openings formed.