building progress

Chris said he could not start properly until Spring 2024, but if he had spare time between jobs he would start preparation work on the drive.

11January 2024

Concrete beams had been ordered for the 1st floor and raised parking deck. These were due to be delivered on 11 January and needed someone to be there to unload. Rather than have someone waiting doing nothing, he built up the supports for the parking deck to close to the finished level. The delivery, from FP McCain, did not arrive until the next day. The inept driver came in forwards and struggled to back the artic out onto the main road. He drove over flower beds, and footpath, knocked flower baskets off the house and hit the gate posts (both of them).

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Building Control inspected the work done by East Mid Group and found a number of faults. The worst being some walls unacceptably out of vertical, excessive variation in the cavity size (in some places what should have been 175mm was 215mm) wall ties sloping the wrong way with insufficient bedding and poorly fitted insulation. Some of the faults could be worked around, for example by adding additional insulation to the inner skin, but some walls needed to be demolished. The first job for Chris was to take these down to DPC, fortunately the weak mortar used and frost damage (more of Danny Bryan’s poor building) meant this was easy!