Typically, on the hottest day of the year, Tom & Dan are working outside, digging in the trench for the poo pipe. This mini digger, known as “Scoopy”, arrived to help out. A very suitable name for the poo pipe task I think you’ll agree. Now known as “Scooby poo”. The mains drainage is in… Continue reading Poo pipe
Category: Exterior
It’ll get worse before it gets better
The day started well with an early morning delivery, this time it was the timber for the loft conversion, so for the floor and dormer windows. It’s quite a big pile so will sit outside until it’s needed. I’m glad it has stopped raining. The front wall in the sitting room was always going to… Continue reading It’ll get worse before it gets better
That Friday feeling
The scaffolders were back, nice and early, to add it to the back of the house. Still raining today but not biblical like yesterday. Only a minor panic as we have a mains electricity cable attached to the house at the back and this needed to be covered with a protector before the scaffolders could… Continue reading That Friday feeling
Rain, scaffolding & steel
I was awoken not by the beautiful sound of the starlings nesting next to my window, but by the unmistakable chinking of scaffolding poles. I never thought I would be happy to be awoken by this sound, but we had been waiting nearly 2 weeks for this! Of course it was raining, proper heavy downpours… Continue reading Rain, scaffolding & steel
Skips and deliveries
As our gate posts are too close together to get a modern vehicle through (designed for Austin 7’s), all deliveries need to go over our beloved hedge. This is challenging when there is a skip full of heavy clay. The truck was so heavy it sunk into the pavement and broke our builders scaffold planks.… Continue reading Skips and deliveries