in these picures i am signing a delivery note as we had a delivery to site of bags of plaster.  i checked the oreder  form agaist the delivery note to make sure that the correct materials had been delivered. i then took all the plaster in to the house and stacked them out of the way on pallets off the floor.

in these pictures i am building the cavity walls for the extention i had to build the outside skin first as ther was not enough room to build the outside skin as the house next door was less than a foot away from our extension. the tools i used to do this wall a trowel, level, hammer, bolster . both skins of the cavity walls were blocks as the house is going to be rendered.

in these pictures i am meauring, cutting and inserting the dacatai into the revel on the cavity wall to seal off the cavity. dacatai main purpose is to seal off the cavity so that when doors and windows are put in no damp come back through from the cavity.

in these pictures i am building a pillar to support the top of the house as we punched holes through the up stairs walls of the house sild box lintels through the holes and used acrose to hold up the walls so we could knock down the downstairs walls whilst leaving the up stairs untouched. also we put in 4 RSJ's to support the top of the house the corners of these rested on the pillar. the pillar was 9 course high and had 3 pad stones on top of it to support the steel beams. i had to keep a close eye on the gauge to make sure that the pillar and the pad stones fitted underneath tightly. we also packed the pillar with slate underneath the steels to ensure it was a tight fit. Also i had to keep it very plumb so it would set pefectly underneath where the RSJ's met as the RSJ's were bloted together.

in these picures i have just built 2 coins of the outside skin in this cavity wall and i am now running them in remembering to put wall ties in. i used a string line to lay my blocks accuretly on each course i also put pieces of batton along the bottom of the cavity to stop it filling up with compo.

in these pictures i am attaching furfix to the wall so that we tie our new extension into the existing house. also i had to dicut a line down the wall on the existing house and side in a piece of 18 damp course instead of smashing out a full cavity to continue it from th extension to the existing building i then smeared compo at the side of the dpc to seal off any remaining gap stopping moisture getting thorugh. to attach the furfix to the wall i had drill hole into the wall put the furfix agaist the wall and hammer hammer fixing to attach it to the wall. then when i build the wall i will snap off the wall ties and slide them down to the apporiate height to tie the block work to the wall.