End of week 6/20 - Block and Beam Flooring

The blocks and beams arrived at midday yesterday (Thursday) and they managed to get through half of the floor.

The Architect and the Conservation Officer also visited yesterday and approved the brick and mortar sample wall that the guys put up last week.

One interesting observation with the groundworkers is that there is a hierarchy - even amongst the 4 guys on site today - if you look back at all the photos, only 1 person gets to play with the cool equipment whether it's driving the diggers or cutting the beams with the angle grinder it's always the same guy - the others just get to lift and dig stuff.

By 2pm their work was done and the floor was down, they boys knocked on the door to say goodbye - then packed the digger on the back of the truck and rode off into the sunset.

Builders due back on Monday...by which time I'll be in New York, so I'm hoping that Mrs H can keep the photo log going - otherwise the next photos could (hopefully) show a dramatic change after a week's solid building without faffing around underground.