Temporary cover/ canopy to allow bricklaying

[AFT4B]

This January has been exceptionally wet. I recall the previous few winters generally to have been OK for external works - relatively dry with just a few cold days/ nights.

If it's important, you could have a scaffold "top hat" structure erected, but that may be costly.

It would need to be high enough to allow the walls to be built up to roof height, so that's about 3.5 - 4m

It's not a massive porch and that pushes the budget out considerably. We still have a lot to do inside the house so I guess I will just have to be patient.

Definitely a very wet Jan and Feb as luck would have it. Unfortunately the weather forecasts have been extremely unreliable as well because the builder has turned up to start in good faith and then heavens have opened up.

This post was originally about whether bricklayers working under temporary coverings was a thing. The answer seems to be that if the builder is comfortable to do it then possibly, if they're not, don't push it.
(I agree, nobody wants a rushed job to save 2-3 weeks but have to look at rough brickwork forever).

 

[robinbanks]

And you can't see why?

It would change rapidly if they were doing it themselves

the builder has turned up to start in good faith and then heavens have opened up.

Always found windfinder.com's weather reporting to be the most accurate; they tell more or less to the hour when the rain is gonna start. Maybe shoot it a look and see how the forecast/super forecast align with your preferred source atm. Another useful daily is being able to see wind direction and speed; it may be light rain but with wind that means your work area is shielded by structures already, or it may be that the wind is gonna beat the daylights out of your coverings etc

whether bricklayers working under temporary coverings was a thing

I know those that do and those that don't. I'm a one that does, but it'd be a gazebo with sides, or it's a small mix i can use in the tome estimated by the weather site, and then get the work covered with plastic and hessian. For face work I'd hold off if a deluge was predicted and if caught unawares it's a rapid cover up, maybe toss the rest of the mix if it can't be used elsewhere (but always handy to have a few holes that need concrete in or patches of renderingbthat need a base coat to use up mix dregs)
There is nearly always something else to do on site