by priscillawaugh | Aug 11, 2013 | Articles
Firstly, you get St Andrews on the case. As a community they are fantastic. Then, there should be cake: Next, you allow at least half an hour for good conversation with cake: And the rest is a doddle: Less than half an hour later the business is all done, decisions...
by priscillawaugh | Aug 9, 2013 | Articles
. . . and, having got the fascia boards sorted, he is pushing up the bottom row of roof tiles (I think that’s what he is doing, but Graham is pretty sure I’ll get it wrong) in readiness for fixing the (black) guttering: Graham will be off the site next...
by priscillawaugh | Aug 8, 2013 | Articles
It’s great when the building starts to come together. The fascia boards are being measured and cut . . . . . . and being fitted outside the children’s room: They will be underneath the new guttering, which I was hoping could be yellow plastic, but...
by priscillawaugh | Aug 7, 2013 | Articles
A couple of decades ago, the then PM, Mrs Thatcher, told us that the world of work was changing: that in the future, we would all be moving about with our skills and tools or with our portfolios under our arms, picking up work all over the country. Or, indeed, the...
by priscillawaugh | Aug 6, 2013 | Articles
Once the joists for the new front extension are all in place, the new porch becomes apparent: And with all the joists in place, it us easier to see how they overlap across the steel. Dave says they don’t need to be bolted together, but it will be good to keep...
by priscillawaugh | Aug 5, 2013 | Articles
. . . have a look at how the experts do it! That long steel across the front of the building, supported by two uprights, is there because the distance across the new frontage is too long for one timber to span. And when it comes to the complicated matter of...
