The blockwork plinth walls started yesterday and today (Tuesday) they are almost finished. An heroic effort by Justin and his blokes, as this was the middle of the Great Rainstorm. The first two pictures were taken yesterday - you can't see the water, but it was like a swimming pool out there when we woke up at 6am - I thought they might not come or if they did we would have to hire a pump. In the end all sorts of other things went wrong in the way of deliveries, but the guys were amazing. They worked with brushes and buckets and cleared out the water, then carried on through the worst that the weather could throw at them.




So we now have our plinth walls almost finished. Two different makes of blocks owing to the aforementioned delivery problems, giving a fetching two-tone effect. The holes you can see in the back wall on the left are where the services go through the walls. What you can see in the picture above is a double skin of higher blocks, which is the double wall that the timber frame will sit on, and a lower skin of blocks which will be the base for the bricks that will be the visible lowest part of the walls.

It has occurred to me that the reading public doesn't know what our house will look like, so here are a couple of pictures. They are not totally accurate - the most up to date plans are only on paper - but will give an idea.

........................15 minutes later - sorry folks, will try again tomorrow - these images all need converting to the right format and it's past 10 at night and the blokes start at about 7am so I'll have another go in the morning. Tomorrow is a big accounts and cash flow analysis day so I shall need some light relief.