Outbuildings: Week 18, Day 2

Outbuildings: Week 18, Day 2

Most of the rest of the roof trusses are now installed above the Garages (appearing at the top-left of the overview photo) – except where they have been temporarily omitted to provide access to build the internal dividing walls. Work is ongoing to install the bracing for the trusses. The wall in yesterday’s photo has been taken a bit higher – as far as it can without another lift of scaffolding – so the masonry work has now moved onto the other internal wall and the gable wall at the north-east corner.

There was also one of the monthly on-site meetings with the Architect, to review progress to date and to agree a valuation for another stage-payment.

Outbuildings: Week 18, Day 1

Outbuildings: Week 18, Day 1

A dry day after some rain yesterday. The progress was again mostly around the Garages, out of shot of the overview photo.

Now the fiddly corbelled brickwork has been completed, the team are making more obvious progress with some of the blockwork internal walls – alongside ongoing work on the roof structure.

Internal wall between the ‘Hay Loft’ and the Garages, showing how the end blocks need cutting to follow the line of the roof; several of the roof trusses have been set aside to allow access to this area