Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House

[Giles]

Progress on the courtyard thus far…

[Giles]

More progress….

Yesterday was spent braking up an old shite bit and dumping it in the skip....

And today, back to laying slabs…

[Matty123]

I love the rounded corners on this hand cut stones. They look great. What are you putting in the joints?

[neph93]

@Matty123:

What are you putting in the joints?

Are we still talking about the paving? [emoji15]

[bryaneidins70]

^^^^ :D^^^^ 

[Matty123]

@neph93:

@Matty123:

What are you putting in the joints?

Are we still talking about the paving? [emoji15]

Reuben saves the day with some well placed humor!

[Giles]

@Matty123:

What are you putting in the joints?

One part cement plus one part lime to six parts soft sand….(approx.....), but I want the jointing to be fairly close to the slab colour, so we will alter as necessary....

[Matty123]

Right on. That’s cool.

[Giles]

The acid test and something that Les and I were a little worried about.  Glad to report, not a slab moved….

[Giles]

I've only got Les 2 days a week at the moment, so things are going slower than I like.  But today we started pointing the slabs and I am over the moon with the result….

[mclaincausey]

Rightly so!

[motojobobo]

Pointing? I’ll have to look that up.

[Giles]

@motojobobo

http://www.pavingexpert.com/pointing.htm

http://www.pavingexpert.com/jointing03.htm

[Giles]

I am an inveterate horder of stuff that may come in useful.  These 19th Century granite blocks have been lying around for years waiting for me to think of something to do with them.

Well, I have some ideas (helped by @Madame Buttonfly's dictat "I down want any piles of fucking shite lying around here when you've finished the extension"), first of them….

[Madame Buttonfly]

@Giles:

Well, I have some ideas (helped by @Madame Buttonfly's dictat "I down want any piles of fucking shite lying around here when you've finished the extension"), first of them….

I'm sure I didn't use that nasty word…

I think I said fucking crap 

[Giles]

And I found this piece of broken cast iron grille in the garden at the office…..re-purped FTW....

[Streetwise Hercules]

@Madame:

I'm sure I didn't use that nasty word…

I think I said fucking crap 

Ha!

I can only imagine what it feels like to actually use items of the unthrowawayable hoard (of shite) I’ve gathered.
One day…

[Giles]

The wood store was knocked up by Les yesterday and today.  Timber needs staining and the coping stones mucked in…..

[neph93]

That right there is the difference between framing in Norway and framing in the UK. Simple structure, but the span between those two 2x4 posts would necessitate a post in the middle in Norway. Because snow.

[Giles]

What's snow?