 Oh, that's a frustrating day. I had a long lunch because I got here fried rice for lunch. Time for the end. We've only got where the wall is to put the course and bricks in. Window height. We're only three, four courses out yesterday. But we're at window height now so we'll get that set up at the break. We'll get it set up now. We'll have a quick break and then get cracking again. We'll get all this up to 20 courses and then we'll jump on the inside on the blocks. Oh yeah, we've been to Fairwoods today as well. Picked up some more cement, some sand, because the tonne sand's not coming until this afternoon. And some cement. So we've got enough materials to get us going for the morning. And hopefully that sand arrives soon. Hello Christmas. Our red stuff's getting very dirty. So there you go. There's our window. 2.4. Well, they're about slightly less than 2.4. The lintel's come with 2.7 lintel. Big rascal. Big price tag. So there's our lintel. 2.7. As you can see, brickwork's looking nice. The joints look huge compared to the house, but the house bricks are definitely bigger than these. These face bricks are only 63mm. They look like they've got massive beds, but they haven't the small bricks. But they do make a nice job. They're not really smart. Anyone who lives in a red row home will recognise these bricks, although I don't think many bricklayers live in a red row home. We can't afford it. Pillars up for one more than that end, just because we can reach it better. And we're going to take up another 2 to get to the top of the profile. Then the profile's obsolete then. We can take that down and we can drop inside and get on the blockwork and start getting some insulation in. Get some blockwork up and work out the cuts. I'll get a few cuts done. I'll just cut here into this bush, so the bush catches a lot of the dust. I'm not cutting it wet because we need the blocks dry. It's alright if you're cutting the load and you're going to be sat there for a week while they dry out, but we can't do that, we're going to use them straight away. As you can see, it's a lovely day. Plenty of sun on the house. Everything's drying out nice. There are very nice bricks to set these, even though they've got a frog in them. We don't do a lot of frog brick up here. So we're used to that. I'm just going to get that water out of the cavity. I'm just going to get this sand from the mix. And then, like I say, two more courses on the two pillars. And we can jump inside. We're going to have a look at the bond, tracing the bond to get the cuts worked out. It's not a lot of cuts. Obviously that's the block on block. Straight up. So that can be thrown up today quick. This side here, there's two cuts per course. And then the same here, two cuts per course. Because of the way the bond works, we'll cut a hundred mil off the end. And that's our throws the bond this way, and the three quarters will throw the bond that way. Just trying to keep the cuts to minimum. Nobody likes cutting. And yeah, the pillars work nice, so there's no small pieces. The other thing is, as you can see, our little forest of tie wires that we never put in. That's our last tie wire to now. So the next one after that is going to be three, and then one. So we're going to put a row in this one, and then a row in the one above. Because this is going to be our coursing course up here. So we've put the course and course in the window. Because obviously, if you put it below the window, you've got to put all these in. But if you put a window height, then we've only got where the wall is to put the course and bricks in. And I'm just going to cut the course and bricks down out of the full block. It just looks better. And it's quicker. Even though I'm cutting them with a sheet, with the cutter, it's still quicker. Laying them. Better bond. So a better row round. So I'm going to get this all jointed up. We'll have to get some mix in, and then I'm going to start doing some cuts. So we're catching a bit. Didn't record anything then. But there you go. That's how I was recording. First course down. Bond set out. A few cuts done. You can see the insulation. All the tie wires. I removed the camera and put it back on time-lapse. Someone's getting low. Yeah. It does, doesn't it? Yeah, fill us up. It always does. Once the block's going. Just a quick one for any people who haven't got the glasses on while they're watching this video. I don't know if you can spot those. They're called tie wires. It's hanging your coats. Yeah. People get attached because it's that much of them. We thought we'd gone by something. Google it and see what we did with them. I think that's right. Well, I hope it's right. We're in quarter three. We're not going to need any more mix, are we? No. There you go. The corner's up. Alex can just blod away on that side now and get that block work up. I've got it up to the course and height. The course and height is 0.07. The tie wires change there. I've got to cut the insulation down. Because you've got to put another course of tie wires in there. I think. Yeah. Because if you don't, it's too far between the next tie wire. So anyway, there's a window opening 30mm back to get the cavity formering. I should really cut that down a bit really so it goes in there too. You have to get one in there. It's easy to push down there. Yeah, that's the height. We're going to top that off and then this is ready for the trestles going up. While Alex is doing that, we're going to go in this corner, paste the bond round, and start getting this corner up. And then tomorrow, when I'm on my own, I'll probably get on that and then see where I get up to. So yeah, I'll put your nails for a bit while I get myself organised. Time for the one there. And then we've got the big one. We don't use this very often, but it comes in handy when we need it. As you can see, our flood light. I've used this about three years. I've used it the third time I've used it. So it doesn't get used often, but it's really useful when it does. So that's it. Alex has got the wall up. That is now scaffold height. The course and brick course is on. So now that's just one, two, three, four, two course of block, two lintel height, which is lintel height, and then probably another course of block on top of that for wall plate height. That's outside after lintel height. I'm going to pick up somewhere in brown wheat vents so we can match, match the house. So everything matches. Yeah, there you go. That's up. Don't forget this is a flat start. I think I loaded the blocks out this morning. So corners up, finished, windows set out. A couple of blocks to go in there to get that front finished. And then I'll do this without the light. And I got the corner up to one, two, three, four, five. But that was doing the cuts as well. So I've been over there doing the cuts with the saw. So yeah, it's tidy up. Joint up and go home. It's just turned four o'clock and look how dark it is. Well, you can't really pick up on the camera, but it's dark. It's pointing to the garden. So I'm going to set you up somewhere where you're not being dazzled by the light and we'll get jointed up and tidied up. That's where we brought the big light. It's pitch black at the moment. It's very cloudy, so obviously it looked like we would have had it gone. But for the most part, we tidied up. We just need to get the jointing done. But there you go. Looks like we've actually done some work today. So that whole side is ready for scaffold height. And Dad's got this corner started and set up. So it's just a case of running the line in up to window height and then getting these pillars up. And then it will be scaffold height. Long day. It's dark, but we've got our light. Like I say, all that's got to get done now is the block working is jointing. I've got the break stone for the elf. But we'll catch you next time because it's getting a bit too dark and awkward to film as jointing. A bit trust us we're going to do it. We'll show you in the daylight, but until our next last little snippet before the last part of this video we will catch you. Happy Saturday the 16th. And it's daylight. Just getting the trestle set up. Alex is only here for the morning. He's off out this afternoon. So he's just come to get me all set up and help me get sorted. I was volunteered. I was volunteered. He was asked. But he did a stream last night. He was up till half past two doing a stream on switch. So he's a bit tired. But it's a big help coming in because I can't turn these days down. Not in the forecast. It's so bad for next week. So we're going to get this up, get it loaded so I can claw down with this today. And then he's going to get me in the position where there's a mix in and he can go get a bit of stone on and get a bit of bad feeling for me. And then there's just a straight panel running in. So that's the plan. So let's get this scaffold up. Alex has nearly got the mix in. This is going to be hard today. Even if he shows me boards right to the top I'm still going to get up and down to load myself out when I've used it up. But there you go. Profiles are up as you can see. That's the last lift we need on them. We'll easily get the pike out of them. So yeah. And we've got an extra three course on this side with as you can see. Because it's just pillars we've just reached up for that. Obviously it's a bit more of a reach here on the grounds of it. A bit more down there. So I'm going to concentrate on this wall today. Just get as much as I can done. We've been struggling to use two mixes today because these bricks anyone who knows using the bell mixer you get about 110 to 120 bricks per mix. We're getting 150 plus these frog bricks because they're only shallow frog believe it or not, frog bricks taking less water weird but true. And then the fiber lights they don't take much either. We put about 70 or so in yesterday and we just had to throw a bit of mix away again because obviously it's pitch black as you've seen for the video. So once that's in I can get up here before that goes we're going to bring some more stone out. This under the window can be finished off. We're just going to finish it with limestone chippings and then customers can decide what to do that after. This is a water feature that doesn't work anymore so that's a big job to get rid of that but they said keep the pebbles so we can try and get the clay out of that clean though. We're just going to put some down here we'll keep it back and once we've finished with the brick work we can brush it all forward nice and clean because obviously if you leave it like that it's coming in snots and mortar and when we leave here we'll leave it like that clean white stone and the same round here stuff down yourselves that again we'll stone that up up to the bottom of the flags before we leave we've got to put about three of these flags redone we've dropped and we've got four broken flags to replace so I think I'm going to be coming in here tomorrow as well judging by the weather and then weather check, weather turns again on Monday so again we just, alright people keep saying stop working weekends I'm going to pee down for the rest of the week I've got plenty of time to stay at home while it's raining we've got to work while we can especially coming up to Christmas we're over 10 to 10 16th of December so about nine days off I'll get you set up somewhere oh yeah first thing I want to do is set the laser up on this profile lining up with the lintel and then put my tape on this side I'll line up with the lintel height and then we can measure out from that I want to make sure that I've got the lintels on and I've just got a message from Danny about our steels he's got the calcs ready so I'll reply to him in a minute here's my tired boy he's a trooper though coming out and helping me I couldn't exactly say no could I you could but you had to deal with mum's wrath it's not, this isn't like I say we're working around the weather I wouldn't be here at myself if I could help it I need the rest but we'll just have to rest when it's raining next week oh yeah have we asked mum to throw the little ones in I could perhaps put them up there so I'm not clowning at the block work bit easier anyway waffling again let's get this laser set up and get my tape on this profile I can get the line up and get cracking there's our laser and here's our line so it's pretty close so I think that's it, we've got to bed down a little bit so mix is almost in and that's the thing I'm just going to brace some stone around while it gets started that black tape, that's the top of that tape for my level now so we've got all our levels to work off now so that's our datum, that's our little height to get everything level and then it's going to be two course above all the way around and then a pike on the front which I've got a lot higher than that one so right enough talking let's get up there and get some brick set afternoon now with his mates his mum came and picked him up so now I'm going to cry on with this lot going to up first get back up there and get this motor used up as quick as I can and then see what time it is I might do a small half mix or I might just get all the cuts done for what's left at the top, a lot of cutting to do so I might get that done instead I'll see it's half 12 now let's see what happens the frustrating day you have all these ideas when you turn up for work think what you want to get done and then it doesn't work out we've got one, two, three courses left to go on there I'm just talking to Neil about heights and wall plates and stuff so obviously this is the last week before Christmas now so I've got Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday lousy weather forecast it said okay tomorrow but there's not a lot we can do we can top that off get the block work up get this bit up to lint light but that's it, we can't do anything else because we haven't got the steel so Monday I'm going to go straight to GM first thing in the morning and get the steel ordered because Danny our structural engineer has kindly rushed through the calculations for the steel and for the ridge I sent him straight to us do we come in tomorrow on a Sunday and get it all ready we could just try and get it coming early dark this has all depend on whether the house is coming or not you might tell me to get stuffed so yeah I'm going to finish off tiring up before it gets dark which he's doing quickly now get everything else covered up I was going to try and get some cuts done today it's very awkward this up and down like I say let's get all the water up for me let's get them down to put the line up that's enough talking I'm going to go home I'm going to relax I had such a stressful last couple of weeks it's been awful but having had a chat with Neil now it's took a lot of pressure off so I think I just want to go home and watch a Christmas film with Christine so I don't know when you're going to see us next could be tomorrow could be Monday who knows but I'll see you when we see you