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Knock Knock.... We're coming through! I hired a couple of strong boy attachments (the acrow props I bought last year as I knew i'd need these a fair bit) to help with the knock through. I'm not sure if I even needed these for the opening size, but better to have something there than take the...

Bye Bye Scaffold... You cost me dear! Okay, so the scaffold has gone! GONE! :D:)(y) This is a relief, a massive step forward in the whole build, I can actually take a breather now and relax a little. I forgot to take any pictures whilst installing the gutters, drainpipes and soil pipe! :( I...

Roof Done So the bulk of the build is done! As an after thought I decided (whilst i still had the scaffold) to vent the ensuite extractor through the roof, so I bought a tile vent and installed that. This would have been easier to do whilst tiling of course, but I like to make my life...

We Have A Roof! It's starting to take shape... a roof! Thought i'd never get to this point! Put the nice finials on to finish the barge boards. I cut and re-attached the existing house barge boards and added the finial. I was originally going to replace the existing...

It's beginning to look a lot like .... a roof! This was a stage of the build where I neglected to take a lot of pictures (unfortunately :()! I was just so consumed with getting the roof on and getting rid of the scaffold as i'd gone over the agreed twelve weeks and it was costing me £100 per...

Scaffold Issues So I realised there was a problem with the scaffold poles being in the way of the roof line. I thought the scaffolders would've placed the poles far enough away from the building to allow for the roof but anyway! I phoned the the scaffold guy and he came and moved them. He's...

Gable Ladders The gable ladders mortared into the brickwork notches and levelled.

Large Gable Brick Work I cut the awkward brick pieces for filling in the gable end at the top with my evolution concrete saw. This required a lot of cuts and wasn't probably worth doing really when you consider most of it won't be seen. The notches in the brick work are for the gable ladder...

Little Trusses Putting the little trusses in now! I installed the straps to the large trusses too. Ideally these would've been placed under the trusses although the diagonal bracing was in the way so I measured where the roof battens were going and placed the straps in between those...

Roof Truss Installation I lifted these roof trusses myself from the floor to the roof using two ropes. I tied two ropes around the top of the scaffold and dangled them to the floor. I then tied one truss at a time to the ropes and lifted each side of the truss, resting it on a scaffold pole...

Roof Arrived Roof trusses arrived! I laid them out on the grass. Anyone want a kids slide (red and blue near shed).... my kids are 12, 14 & 16 now :LOL: You can see the window lintel going in here for the first floor. I decided to use eaves lintels as there is no brickwork on the outer leaf...

I'm Up High! So, I didn't do well with heights at all, but after spending several days on the top of the scaffold, I'm used to it, it's a doddle to climb the ladder and i don't even think about the height so much now. It's good actually, you can see loads up here, spoke to two neighbours i've...

Scaffold In The Heavens Whoa! I don't like heights to be honest so when the scaffold went up to the top lift, It was scary :cautious:! Walking around up there took some getting used to and i'll be honest I was really nervous the first time I went up! The scaffold guy didn't even leave me a...

Thinking About The Roof I will need to join the back of the existing roof to the new roof, so i started to strip some of the existing side away. Looks nice hey? Final toothing knock outs done... what a relief, I hated doing that! Messed up the bonding on the this corner... ssshhh...

We Have Walls! So the walls are nearly there! Not much to say on this post.... they're walls! o_O Boring grey walls!

Awkward Corner The internal corner was awkward as the profile didn't really work there despite having the bracket to use the profile in the internal corner. I built the internal brick corners with just a level and tape measure... the old fashioned way :D! It's raining... again! :mad:

Bricks, Blocks, More Bricks, More Blocks This is the stage where everything plods along I suppose, just brick laying and block laying! Throughout the build I've alternated between doing block rows first and doing brick rows first, although towards the end of the build I was building the inner...

Scaffold Goes Up So the scaffold went up... finally! I had four scaffold companies come around although all but one were hesitant as I knew i needed the scaffold for at least three months (i'm not the fastest! :LOL:). The guy agreed a set price of £1000 for 12 weeks and then 10% per week...

Okay, so i'm back to update on the build.... phew what a few months, with the poor weather, work and kinda running out of money (n).... it's been tough! I'm still not fully finished yet ... nearly! As per the last post, the first floor is installed and covered although the rain has been...

It's a gas DPC which spans the two walls and cavity then will be taped to the gas membrane. I guess that's what you mean, not sure which picture you mean.