More scaffolding and first floor lintels

We are back from a week away in Devon visiting Chris, Katie and family for a few days, followed by a campervan stay at Helene and Col's self-build, where Elizabeth worked in the garden-to-be and I fitted the downstairs door linings as part of the preparation for the next phase of plastering. We were away for a whole week! It was lovely and felt a little bit like old times - for days on end we didn't wear a mask.

We had a slow drive back as there had been a vehicle fire on the M5, and because it was a summer Friday and traffic levels are definitely back to pre-Covid levels, even if there is an HGV-driver shortage (so many EU citizens have gone home, and who can blame them?)

We came home via the plot to find blocks in abundance, some of them laid, and a second stage of scaffolding to the higher sections. A later call with Pat established that the wait for the scaffolding had been the cause of the previous week's inactivity. There seem to be delays for everything in the construction industry at present.

So things are looking subtly different - just higher, really. And the telehandler is back. And there's a mobile toilet now. Next week we are told there may be a real change as the roof trusses may go up.

the current view from the field - the chimney pot towards the right shows the level that the apex of our roof will reach to

looking back towards the field along the west wall

Elizabeth and her new motor

the view from one of the windows in bedroom 4 over the front 'garden'

up to the first level of scaffolding

and up to the second level

between the two stagings looking towards the front on the south side

looking from the north windows of the main bedroom across the stairhead and through the family bathroom - as always, use your imagination

this will be the green roof (with rooflight) over the dining area, with the picture window of bedroom 2 marked by the horizontal row of unlaid blocks

most of this space will be the family bathroom

and this is a technical one - we think the cill level of the two windows to the right of the picture needs to be a block higher (to allow for the garage roof in due course) - time for a tactful chat with the builder!
























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