Outbuildings: Week 14, Day 3

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Outbuildings: Week 14, Day 3

Another day where all the work was out of shot to the left of the overview photo.

Good progress on framing the floor joists between the ‘attic’ trusses installed yesterday – and also in forming 3 of the 4 shallow brick arches over the garage door openings. There are 8 or 9 courses of bricks and blocks to go on top of the arches – although the weight of the roof will be supported by steel beams sitting about half a metre behind the brickwork (supported by the blockwork piers visible through the door openings).

Shallow brick arches built on timber formers supported by Acrow props

Outbuildings: Week 14, Day 2

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Outbuildings: Week 14, Day 2

Almost all of today’s activity was off to the left of the overview photo, erecting the first set of roof trusses on the (relatively small) two-storey section and preparing to start installing the shallow brick arches over the garage door openings.

View looking north-west from the south-east corner of the scaffolding

The steel beam over the wide internal door opening also got installed – visible on the photo above (and also in the overview shot).

In addition, there was one of the monthly Site Meetings with the Architect, which includes a valuation of progress to date (and materials delivered to site) to support the monthly stage-payment on the building works.