Work started on the second house this week and as we were repeating work that had already been done at the first house everything seemed to proceed very quickly. Although the tenant in the first house is remaining in her home throughout this project, the tenant in the second house has decided to go and stay [...]
We have started work on the first of our two houses. Work will start on the second house next week. Work completed during the first week included: Skip delivered Scaffold put up Outbuilding reconfiguration (ongoing) Drains and soil pipe moved (ongoing) Roof-line extended at gable (ongoing) Investigations into state of existing lintels above windows and [...]
Kinetics’ builders were onsite from 8am this morning to start work on some of the demolitions and constructions at the first of our two houses. A large skip was delivered and placed in the front garden and work began on the outbuilding which requires some remodelling of the internal space in readiness for the boiler [...]
Visited then tenants today to give a final briefing before the construction phase starts next week. We went through all the jobs that are likely to happen in the first week and I gave them the most up to date schedule of work. Its unlikely that we will stick to the schedule exactly each day [...]
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Another hectic site visit today as I met with Warwick District Council, Bershe Rolt (lintel specialists), Bowater and Kinetics in order to discuss and evaluate the lintel problem. Bowater were also there to complete their measuring up for the windows and doors. It is unlikely that these houses were built with lintels as they weren’t [...]
