A bigger bedroom week 2

Monday saw the health and safety regulation boarding go up. Monday was rather a frustrating day as the bricks promised for 10 am did not arrive. Mr B and Mr A managed to fill their day with setting things up, organising other materials, ensuring they were ready for the bricks to arrive Tuesday at 8 am! Health and Safety regulations insist the area must be safe from the wanderings of children......

Rosie is very grateful to Mr B and Mr A for providing her with a new place to play with her bricks...Iris seemed to like it too!

Tuesday and the bricks did indeed arrive at 8 am....lots of umming and arring about where, who and how...a bit of a practice run.....

then the actually brick laying commenced.

A little while later I heard frustrated noises...witnessed head scratching....and then the uplifting of bricks!

Apparantly they had taken their level from the wrong house...the floor level of the new room was to be at the level of the floor in the right hand house....that is the height of Rosie's deck! The other house is about 6 inches lower....so problem solved lay bricks in line with other house bricks.....

Oh dear, more head scratching....(Jules have you killed that louse?) The bricks on the other house are all different depths...no amount of head scratching looking scratching looking again is going to solve this issue......I point this out...point out the merit of doing the best you can inthe circumstances. Assure them both that I will not stand in the corner between Rosie's deck and the new wall and measure how many

millimeters different the mortar line is! With that assurance the brick laying recommences. By Tuesday evening there was a significant few layers of bricks...a significant amount of stressed adults too!

Wednesday dawned fair...I had my previously blogged appointemnt in Lincoln so had gone off leaving the three men in charge of the works! I came home to more frustration....the rain had seemed to only fall in our village but had obviously been significant! progress had been slow and their had been some altercation between workforce! All had been resolved by my return but David had been upset by it all...which meant I got his account of the day...however he felt they had redemmed themselves by the end of the day and there was a significant amount of wall to show for it! the aim being floor height by Thursday to lay the floor Friday!

Thursday was a glorious day, work flew on and although the day ended slightly short of plan no one could complain about lack of effort.

Friday and Eve knew she had to take control

The aim was for the base to be levelled off for the laying of the floor slab, Building inspector arranged for late afternoon, the clock was ticking.

Work progressed whilst David continued with his own project, then it became a desperate race for time and so David joined in!

Note the workers....and the Boss....the one with hands on hips!

Eve is keeping a close watch!

I was having a recouperation day and managed to keep them stocked with home made goodies, chelsea buns and outmeal and fruit cookies...lunch time brought out the bacon Sandwhiches and before we were ready the building inspector arrives...since when was half one late afternoon. Mr B immediately appo;ogised that we were not ready but she came to look anyway. Asked some wuaestions about the order of work to be done and was satisfied that all was goping well and trusted them to finish the work satisfactorily and passed it!

The floor slab gets thrown on Monday!