6th March 2011

It has been a while since I have updated this and to be honest, I haven't really done that much in that time.  I pulled out my back the other week so haven't really been able to do much hard labour.

Since my last post I decided to spend a day cleaning gulleys and drains in the road (before you ask if that's the council's job, I know) but it was one of those jobs that had to be done and I cleared between 2-3 tonne of muck - no wonder the grounds of the bungalow wasn't draining properly.  Anyway, it was a day well spent (and keeps the neighbours happy - no more little streams down the road!).

I have also cleared away more rubbish from the site and today mum called down to help me clear some more.

The footings for the two walls that are going to be brick with chimney breasts have also been dug today.  The inner block cavity foundations were dug a while ago and the blocks laid two courses high.  The reason I am digging the outside foundations now rather than doing the two at the same time is because I am using what reclaimed bricks I can so I decided to have a stepped foundations so that the bricks don't go as far below ground as the blocks do - I have a limited supply of bricks and don't want to run out.