Week 6

The second house at the end of the sixth week

In the original schedule we were due to reach substantial completion by the end of this week. This is unlikely to happen until the end of next week as there were some delays, particularly around the external cladding work as there was a last minute change to the choice of finish and readjustments to both scaffolding and roof lines were required. As the tenant from the second house was due to return from holiday today a special effort was made to complete as much as possible there, leaving more work to do at the first house next week.

Work completed this week included:

• External wall insulation continued boarding out at both houses
• Brick effect render applied to the lower half with dash to the upper half of the second house
• Dash render applied to the outbuilding at the second house
• External fixtures such as the satellite dish etc put back at the second house
• Scaffold removed at the second house
• General cleaning and tidying up internally at the second house
• False ceilings added to the outbuildings at both houses to hide heating pipe work
• Wattbox and data monitoring systems installed at both houses

Midway through the creating the brick effect

Close up of the brick effect finish