Day 55 - Brickwork

Unfortunately due to recent bad weather and our unreliable bricklayer, progress has been very slow. This week we managed to get a couple of consecutive days work from our bricklayer but its really testing my patience.

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The kitchen wall is starting to come up but there's still a long way to go. We were hoping to have the walls built up by Christmas but that is looking highly unlikely. In addition to the lack of progress, while trying to transfer salvaged bricks from the back of the garden to the front of the garage, I managed to puncture the wheelbarrow which meant replacing the wheel. Fortunately Wickes sell one for a reasonable price. Another issue which the bricklayer identified was that the utility toilet window which is designed to be 600mm wide, doesn't quite work with the brick gauge and needs to be 550mm ideally to avoid having odd brick cuts. Reducing the window isn't a problem but it means the stone head and cill I've already ordered isn't going to work so they also need to be adjusted. Called up the suppliers to put the head and cill on hold.


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