Oak frame is a jigsaw
The guys from Welsh Oak Frame spent the morning covering the brickwork below the damp with polythene to protect it from staining by the tannin in the wood, they then fixed the sole plate on the damp proof coarse to stand the Oak frame on.
After a decent sunny morning the rain has returned but the [...]
Oak Frame is here!!
This morning I was up and about early despite a bit of a family get together yesterday as we were having a forklift delivered to the site to unload the Oak frame. As we had been let down on a couple of occasions on the frame delivery I was relieved to get a call from [...]
Oak Frame Delayed
Welsh Oak have been delayed by the weather on another site and have had to pospone the delivery and erection of our frame.
It is really dissapointing as this is the second delay and we will now be 5 weeks behind schedule assuming they do turn up next monday.
With the cacellation of the frame delivery we [...]
Concreted footings today
3 day’s in and things have gone well.
We hit chalk at around 800 mm in the majority of the excavation except on the chimney side where we went down 1 meter and left it for the DS and NHBC inspection.
The District Surveyor was OK with everything but requested another .5 of a meter in the [...]
