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

[Giles]

Post a pic of the door somewhere….The 3 big steels arrive today...

[Giles]

And the large ones have just arrived…

[Giles]

Drawings for the gauged arches…Call me sad, but these are things of beauty.....

[neph93]

No buts about it. They are beautiful and you are sad [emoji6]

[Graeme]

The gauged arches look complicated. Are the bricks cut to size and shape onsite, or do they arrive as a kit?

I think that they'll be great when they're done.

I agree with @Giles that @Steffen's door sounds great. I want to see pictures when it's done.

[Giles]

In the "old" days, they would have been cut and rubbed to shape on site, but this is a very difficult skill to find these days, and when you do, it comes at a cost….

So, I'm having them cut and bonded to steel load-bearing lintels with 5mm joints off-site.  Well, actually 2 of the windows are bricked up to replicate the look of a Georgian window-tax bricked in window...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

I've just found out that the large arch will way about 700 kilos - yee gods.

[organisys]

Those arches will look great when done. Shame there isn't the proliferation of skills anymore to do this the old way, but it doesn't surprise me, the house I just moved into is a new build, some of the brickwork is interesting! The builder admits that they struggle to find bricklayers; sometimes it's any old trade lending a hand !!

As you mention, anyone who is skilled and experienced can command a premium and is booked up months or years in advance. I have a family friend who only does 'premium' and listed restorations or extensions now…

[Giles]

Have a little bit of a hiatus for a while.  Can't go up any more until gauged arches arrive.  I can get the joists put in, but need some fecker to give me a price on Posi-Joists first….

Belt and braces....

And a larger Catnic on the inner skin….

Wondering whay the blocks are smeared with muck?  A rain storm that could have raised Noah's bleeding Arc came through when the muck was still wet…..

[Graeme]

@Giles:

Belt and braces….

"Overengineered is our starting point."

[Clint_D]

Congrats @mclaincausey!

Also, looks like you're making great progress @Giles!  I wish my project had nearly the momentum yours has had…

[Giles]

Great….

[Giles]

Meanwhile in Mundanesville….

Whilst we have a hiatus whilst I get the joists built, I fixed a maglock to the rear gates and bought a scaffold tower (not tall enough  ::), so have ordered another lift).....

[Giles]

Oh, and I had a pallet of radiators delivered.  I know from experience that to move these, each one is a 2 person (3 to 4 for the large one at the bottom), so as I am on my own atm, they will stay outside the front door until I find some muscle….

[neph93]

I need a holiday and have muscle. Go halves on the airfare?

[Giles]

How long can you stay ?

[neph93]

Just checked with Hot Ingrid. At first I thought she said “Two weeks, enjoy yourself” but I misheard. Turned out she said “Go and fuck yourself”. [emoji847]

[Giles]

You could do both…. ::)

[Matty123]

I laughed out loud at that exchange.

[neph93]

@Giles:

You could do both…. ::)

I’m literally sat here with one hand cupping myself considering the consequences. I mean, I’ve metaphorically lost my balls already, how much worse can actually losing them be?

[Steffen]

@neph93:

@Giles:

You could do both…. ::)

I’m literally sat here with one hand cupping myself considering the consequences. I mean, I’ve metaphorically lost my balls already, how much worse can actually losing them be?

I guess way worse, like waking up and feeling like you got hit by a Bus versus actually getting hit by a Bus