56 Conservatory – How to build an extension

1 Conservatory

Saturday 29 April 2017 / 09:35

Finally the rest of the conservatory will be built. The first thing is to redo some of the brickwork up to DPC which has been badly frost damaged in the five years since it was built. William is now semi-retired and so the job of doing this brickwork is down to Ben, who runs the company now. Neil’s been in on Friday to start removing the damaged bricks. Nipper is just exiting one of the air holes as he’s been investigating under the floor.

2 Conservatory

Tuesday 2 May 2017 / 09:57

Neil’s removing old bricks and filling the cavity up to ground level with concrete.

3 Conservatory

2 May 2017 / 15:15

Laying bricks. The walls will come to about 200mm above finished floor height. There’s a whole course of blocks which have to be cut down; they are sawn by hand with a brick saw.

4 Conservatory

2 May 2017 / 16:57

While Neil and Ben have been getting on with the block work William and I have been constructing this framework for the joinery company to work to and also to provide a guide for the brickwork.

5 Conservatory

2 May 2017 / 16:58

It looks really big.

6 Conservatory

Wednesday 3 May 2017 / 18:55

The Neil and Ben have been at it for another day and the brick and block work is coming up. The blocks are the final height now.

7 Conservatory

Thursday 4 May 2017 / 20:08

They’ve finished the brickwork apart from a small triangle top right, which will probably be done when the frame is in.

8 Conservatory

Fri 9 June 2017

Today we cut the template in half and took it to the joinery in William’s van so that they can work to it.

9 Conservatory

21 July 2017 / 14:19

William and Nick have been over to the joinery and picked up some of the wood. This is a small bit.

10 Conservatory

Sun 23 July 2017 / 12:37

Oiling the wood using Danish Wood Oil. It needs 3 oilings before construction.

11 Conservatory

Mon 24 July 2017 / 19:52

Rafters ready for oiling.

12 Conservatory

Saturday 29 July 2017 / 10:16
Yesterday William brought round some more of the wood and I’m getting some oil on it before it rains.

13 Conservatory

Friday 4th August 2017 / 11:39

I got round to William’s yard at 8am to load these two scaffold towers onto the truck. Putting them up was fairly hard work.

14 Conservatory

Friday 4th August 2017 / 15:22

Nick’s been drafted in and we’ve managed to get a steel beam up onto the towers to suspend the block and tackle that we’ll use to lift the side frame into position with. Williams’s got a bandana on.