Outbuildings: Week 1, Day 1

Outbuildings: Week 1, Day 1

Work started on the Outbuildings today. The first big job is removing the concrete slab for the old cow shed, which first required the clearing of the materials stored on that slab over to another location, well out of the way of the new construction.

There’s a new timelapse camera mounted on the House, looking due East. Due to the camera’s field-of-view and it being relatively close-by, it only covers roughly 2/3 of the Outbuildings – missing most of the Northern wing. However, it will still give a good indication of progress.

The plan is to resume daily updates with progress on the Outbuildings.

Building Work Scheduled To Start One Week Today

When I selected my building contractor the expectation was that he would be ready to start at the end of September. He’s been asked to do some additional work on his current project and there are a few last-minute details to sort out with the design of my steelwork so by mutual agreement we’re going to start on Monday 5th October, one week today.

To make that happen we need to sign the contract (we’re using one from JCT, the Joint Contracts Tribunal) before the end of this week. That’s planned to happen at a meeting with the Architects on Friday.

If everything goes to plan the house should be finished around the end of July 2016.