August 2007

August sees the first of the bricks laid!

These effectively build up the foundation and raise the floor level of the extension building to match that of the existing house.

As a result, suspended wooden floors are out of the question!


So this means that a concrete beam and block floor is the only answer. This appears on the 8th August.










During the interim, work carries on at the back of the house to build the central brick engineered post that will eventually carry the steel beams which will support the whole house when eventually finished. This involves some rather interesting work on the existing house wall, and leaves a rather interesting hole on the inside.












But half way though the month, the brick walls (i.e. both inner and outer skins) are completed ready to receive the concrete beams of the floor. As shown.


These were eventually joined by the blocks necessary to create the actual floor

Up, up, up we go! The block walls start to be built on the 21st August.

By the end of the month, we have both inner and outer skins of wall to ground floor ceiling level! Looks like we have the start of a house!