 Well that's a pleasant surprise. It works brick, so it works brick under the window and on the pike, saws all, both saws, get them bushes out the way. Not working today, but we're on the job, the duck job. Thought you threw in a second. Yeah, just having made Jim on the phone asking me advice about brick work in this weather. The weather this week is round here anyway. As long as it's like that, it's cold. A bit of cloud, it warms up but then. So what we're getting, we're getting like minus two, minus three overnight and then it struggles to get to one or two degrees. And by the time it does it's like two o'clock. You get a mix and you might get a few under brick or so done. Then you've got to cover it up and make sure it's right. Look after it overnight and then once the sun drops, the temperature drops with it. It freezes again. So it's not worth turning out. It's not worth putting the ad mix in the frost proof because all that is rapid hardener. It doesn't work. Jibber's just saying he's seeing what it says. It works down to minus eight or so well. Would you even want to work in minus eight? You can't work in that. So we're in now with all the dust sheets we've got, putting layers and layers and layers over the sand just to protect it so the frost doesn't get too deep into the sand. That won't keep it frost free. It's getting to minus three, but it'll protect the centre. It'll just give us half a chance. So as it stands, it's Wednesday now. Yes, it's Wednesday and we won't be coming back here until probably Wednesday next week because the forecasters are in this. I think there's going to be a few cold days, wet days. But like I say, the other job we were going to go on now, we can't go on. So he said next week, so hopefully we'll drop on that Monday Tuesday Wednesday. We're not working Friday Saturday, but that's wet and cold anyway. So yeah, as you can see, well wrapped up. Is there a sheet or something? Black sheet in the back of the van. That's the stuff we're going to throw away. I see a little one to stop. Cover the ceiling top and then I'll cover it again. The dust sheet? Yeah. There should be more in that purple bag. Yeah, so that's the plan. The insulation, you're going to help as well. This isn't going to freeze at the top. This one might. Yeah, there you go. So it could be another week before your sales back here. So see you then. Wednesday 6th, quarter past nine. And it's, I think it's about minus one. The tart, it took a right dive overnight with this clear sky. So as you can see, the frost is back. It doesn't really matter today. This is our sand injury. A couple of layers. Everything with brick weights all nicely covered up, protected from the frost. So today is the saw roll, both saw, getting them bushes out of the way. And we're going to start stoning up. I think ours has already took a barrel full already. We can get the crust off it. So we were going to try and break it later today, but I don't think it's going to be warm enough for long enough. It might just get to about two later on, but that's no good. But we're still in the position where we can get it prepped and get it slabbed. So jobs today, stoned up, get it prepped. I need to drive off and go and get the insulation orders and get some, get the floor insulation picked up. Or get the cavity insulation dropped off. I think I've got a slow point down there, so that's where it's sorted out. And then I need to get this thing cleaned as soon as possible because it's going on. Auto trader. And it's going on for more than I want for it. So it cannot be down. Neil's been today, in the van, I'm buying off him. And he's showing me the one he's buying. Nice, probably nearer this colour. Where's the one that I'm buying off him? It's a dark grey, like a slate grey. So we're going to have to change the way these letters are on the back. That's going to stand out as much as it gets dark grey. So it might have to go orange that. But we'll see. I'm sure Brian will sort it out. Let's stick them on. So yeah, let's get round the back and start making some room. Yeah, best thing is leave everything in covered while it's just cold to give it a bit of insulation. Alex has made a start, as you can see. That's just been covered up since we dug it out. So Alex, try and save a bit of that. I want to mix concrete with that for the cavity. Again, it takes you, I don't know if it's good enough yet. Well, yeah. Well, at the push, we'll use the concrete that we get to deliver for the cavity then if we run out. But I'm pretty sure we've got enough. There's probably a tonne and a half there and two tonne. There's more than two tonne there isn't round the front. That's a generous two tonne though. Is this off maybe? We've been less than generous on two jobs now. Yeah. So as you can see, the sun's coming round but it's not really going to get us much because of this bloody big hedge. And that's my job. Get rid of this. So we've got access. We've got to build the thing. Yeah. Usually not too bad though. That's the rest of it on the block last night. There you go. All right. It's 10 o'clock. Trusty Sawzall did the job as usual. That thing was just a ball with loads and loads of sheep coming off it. So it took a lot longer than I was expecting but it's down now. So we've got a nice area to work around. We can walk around. We can load out. We can work. The edging's coming out because all we're going to do is trip over that. Everything you can see there, the flag, the concrete base panel. That base panel is going up where that rake is along that edge there, right up against the fence. The same with the flag, same with the fruit tiles. Put them along here out of our way. And then we're going to get back filled up for the block today. And then it's ready for us to get the facework done, which is touching on whether we get it done today. As you can see, the sun's coming that way into the garden. We need the sun to be going that way into the garden. So by the time it comes round to here, it tends to be dipping down again and going cold again. I don't think it's going to freeze tonight. I'll have to check that. You can see that side's done. So we've got our little cube, our little square ready for the concrete to go into it. So that's that done. Alex is cracking on with a stone. I've got the trench part filled in almost now. Yeah. The internal trench. That's it. We're going up to the first course of Common Brick. It's just at the bottom of the blocks. So just above, just under the second course of Brick. Yeah. So basically top of the commons on the house. That gives us 225 down, then the depth of a block, which is 100 concrete, 100 insulation, 25 mil sand blinding. And we've got two tonnes of sand. So we should have plenty of sand. I mean, if we need more sand, we need more sand. But yeah, I mean, that stuff, it's got the blinding in it. Well, that's the stuff that was under the floor. But anyway, we're going to save that for concrete if we've got enough left to put in the cavity because we're going to fill up just above the bottom of the block. Just to build the bottom of the block there so that I'm going to put the slope on it. And then it's nice and strong then. Yeah. That's it. That's it really. So I'll put you back on time lapse, pointing at the slab because that's where we're concentrating on now. We'll probably go for a quick break and then I'll leave Alex to it and go and get this puncture sorted on the van. So we're just waiting for the next payment of the customer and then I can go off and order the insulation. Happy days. Nicely cleared, flat. Hopefully we'll have to put a thin stack there against the... But we still have room. And then we'll double backfill in this because I'll do it up to there so we can build it. And then, again, once the face works up another two course up to level up with that. We'll just leave it level with hardcore because obviously there's nothing left to do on this side. That edge is going to come out because it's doing nothing now. And the customers are going to decide what they want there. But that's... I don't know what to do with that but we're going to just aim for the stone and that up level. We'll try and cut that down a little bit when I get the spade rounds, level it out a little bit so I can get down when we need to do another corner. Can't bother putting a profile on it. Yeah, Alex is doing well with the stone. So it's quick break and I'm going to head off getting punctured on. I'll head off then and go and get the insulation sorted. Get the three sheets up to the floor and get the cavity stuff delivered because we need ten packs because you only get four slices per pack and that's a solid wall. I must check that though because there's only pillar, bit of brickwork underneath the window, pillar. So 660, 660, panel underneath the window and then we've got two courses above. Probably works out the same as that one. So that needs insulated and then over the steel as well. Right on back. Alex's been busy. That big pile at the front's gone. All nicely spread out. It's all drying out with the sun and this wind as well so we should be alright. We should start whacking it. We've got this corner to do and all that left over so we shouldn't be too bad. We might just have a little bit left over for backfilling. I never thought, I thought we have a load left over so we could have kept clay for that. We'll have to buy another ton for backfilling it but we'll see anyway. We're not digging out the skit. Alex's digging it in the first place. So yeah, just around here. Got my boots on now because I'm not too used to whacking. Just a quick one. Got my puncture done but Ron Crosby ties it up to get a shout-out to Roy. Came over to say he watches the channel so done with your puncture and we've got a diary. 2024 diary. Ron Crosby ties. So we're in the Omskirk area doing car commercial and farming vehicles. Yeah, great service. Took about 20 minutes, done and dusted. Screwed right in the middle of the tread. Look, it was in the middle. So yeah, thanks again to Roy. Ron Crosby ties. Let's get to this thing around there. Well, I've just found a good tip because you've got a bit of sludge when you've been moving mucky water. And that's a bit of sludge. If you can't get it, just leave it out overnight. On a winter day. There you go, fuck it's clean. There you go. That's the stone in and moved away from there. Got that space. Feel cleansed. There you go. It's about 20 past 12 now. So we're going to have a quick lunch, bring a tape back with us and then we'll know what bits might be low and need a bit of... I think I've looked at any that's low. I think I might have on a high just in the middle so I might just break that middle bit into that corner which dropped a bit. Okay, well, happy days. I made sure there was definitely enough in there. And all the spare stone we have back filled this side. So we're good. What did you think? The last two extensions that we've done the slab on we very underestimated how much stone we need. So I made sure. I wasn't letting any of that stone go into a cavity before it was in here. Which is good. Because that's how much spare we had. And then we just swept off the rest in there. So that was it. But yeah, enough rambling. We will see you after lunch and we'll get a bit of sand blinding and then get some bricks loaded up while the weather's nice. There we go. I think we've gone over all this before lunch. I think that's going to have to come down a little bit and we're going to have to double check the floor level because the doors are coming out. Alex's done the back filling. I've got another bucket of stone to go in that corner. I'm going to get the wheelbarrow and I'm going to start bringing bricks around and get enough loads out for today. There's no need to blitz it all out straight away, we just need what we want today and get that sorted. So yeah, Alex's just going So yeah, let's set you over here and get some loading out from. I'm not turning the radio down because it's only out of its corners up. Bond's worked out big-ish perps with a half on the end. If that works for everybody that means we've increased inside by 100mm to allow for the loss of 50mm on the cavity. So that's got it back to the same internal measurement as it would have been. It works brick. So it works brick under the window and on the pike and this works brick as well. So that's all set. We're just going to run in as quick as we can now. We're racing the dark again but it's not sunny today. The good news about that is it's not going to freeze tonight. It's going to drop to two and then it's going to be back at five by by the morning and then it's going to start raining but we'll be but we need to get this thing sorted. We need to get it blinded and then as long as we get the insulation and the other viscun on top then it doesn't matter if it rains on it we can just get the wet drive back on it and then get concrete in it. It's all up in here at the moment because of the weather but the good thing is this is finished. What's a pleasant surprise? It is a surprise actually I really didn't think we'd get that done today. I didn't think we'd have it done more so I thought it would be a push to get it done because don't forget I need to be on the flat that's really hard work opening it out of there so yeah we're in yeah flat start that was all you I was doing stone using the stone so yeah we're ready it's sand blinding viscreen insulation cold bridging strip viscreen concrete and that door's coming out as I've said so we don't have to cover it so when people are getting irate sand look at the concrete all over that door it's going in the skip and it's a very old aluminium patio door in a hardwood frame like 1980s style so it won't be getting sold it's not it's no good the lock's on no good so it's it's going probably a nail skip that skip will be gone by then yeah so what we're going to do now is tidy up in the daylight which is a nice change for us and then just leave the joints until last thing works out nice that it's a bit annoying being a full to a half but that's just the way it works out it's better that working brick and then giving the extra bit of room so there you go there's the internal of it it's weird it looks almost square but it's 3.7x4 meters so there's 300 millimetres in it right time lapse and tidy seems we forgot to film an outro again so from the office thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed be sure to give us a thumbs up and if you're new to the channel and you want to see more hit subscribe and tap on that bell that way you'll always be notified when we upload that's always a massive help and we greatly appreciate the support this has been bit clean with Steve and Alex we'll see you next time