Working up in the loft
Greetings, late again by a month, I know. Apologies. When I published my last blog update on 31st March I stated that I had two priorities in the coming months. One was to complete the loft. The other was to pick up on where I had left off when last winter finally hit and made conditions too cold to work outside, and get the front area of the house completed in terms of the walkout basement patio, front door entrance steps and garage aprons - not a small task as this involves completing the stone fascia wall in front of the patio (serving partly for aesthetics but also as the form for the concrete patio pour), building a concrete form for the steps and garage aprons, ground compacting, then fitting rebar, prior to a contractor undertaking the concrete pour and finishing. Over egging my expectations as ever, the work at the front of the house has yet to start, and frankly I doubt now I shall deal with that until late summer or early Fall (autum...