Building Dreams

We’ve had the bricklayers in this week, working on the chimney and inglenook. We chose the same bricklayers who worked on the Potton showhome at St Neots, Cambridgeshire. The brickwork there is fantastic and I wanted the same builders to do it. They’ve done a great job for us and I’m very happy with it.

We’ve also had the tiler hard at work on the roof. We could have had it easy and gone for normal concrete tiles, but we’ve chosen much smaller, plain clay tiles. The normal tiles would have been cheaper – and less work for the roofer – but Sharon didn’t want anything that looked orange on the roof and so we picked a darker tile, which is already blending in with the roofs on neighbouring houses really well.

The scaffolding’s still up and will be there until the roofer’s finished. Meanwhile I’ve been busy getting quotes and people organised for later on in the build.

Next week, we’ll be finishing the chimney, continuing work on the roof and having the rendererers in.