I Can See The Pub From Here

Well not quite, but I hope you get my drift.

The first floor is in, which I wasn’t expecting.  I thought my stage payment at first floor joints, would included exactly that. 

As there is obviously nothing above, I didn’t expect to see floor boards being laid on top of them straight away.

But apparently, these bad-boys are water proof, which means that they can be laid now, and they can even assist the bricklayers, especially useful for tidying the internal block jointing work, I’m told.

It’s amazing how these thin pieces of wood conglomerate change the feel of the, well, house. In fact they make it look, and feel, more like a house than it ever has done.

The downstairs is now effectively laid out, and you get a good idea of how much natural light each room will get. 

Stood on the first floor, it seems a shame to put walls up at all, though I think from a hypo-thermal and security aspect, upstairs walls are necessary.

I might ask the builder to galvanise and leave the scaffolding on the west elevation of the house, that would make a fabulous balcony.

The three-foot-foreman is due on site this afternoon,  after nursery, I’ll see what he says.