Author: Max Heron

The team has made good progress this week.   A partial 3rd lift of scaffolding was erected by Heroes Scaffolding on Tuesday and we then had a team of 5 (Dan, Emilius, Sam, Riley and Lewis) from Insul Hub on site for the rest of the week. We can now start to see the shape […]

At last, a good week of solid progress! On Monday, the InsulHub team managed to place all the steels required for the middle floor aided by the superb crane skills of Sian from Earp Lifting.  All of the steels fitted together perfectly with much relief all round.  It was wonderful to see the shape of […]

At last, the long-awaited steels arrived on Thursday 18 November from DSM Fabrications so we can start moving again On Monday 22 November, we will expect to see the steels placed and then we can start building up.  Of course, the delay has had a significant knock-on to other activities and we have had to […]

No work on site this week which is frustrating as it has been largely warm and dry.  The steels are critical to moving onto the next stage and their expected delivery date appears to slide to the right.  Beam & block is also in short supply with long lead times. In consequence, we have had […]

After all of the excitement of the delayed pour on Monday, we have had no action since.  Unfortunately, we are awaiting the steel beams required for the top of the middle floors, the beam and block for the 2 balconies and the posi-joists for the floors!  All of them have been on order for some […]

Following the growth spurt in the week before last we finally received the much needed HB20 blocks last week.  The HB20s are 200mm wide blocks comprising a concrete core of 140mm with 2 x 30mm woodcrete webs and do not contain any insulation as they are used for internally. These blocks have been used to […]

We finally managed a growth spurt this week with a team of 6 making great progress on the walls for the middle floor.  However, they worked so fast that they ran out of HD44/23 blocks!           Once again, we were at the mercy of the ports as a consignment of blocks […]

We have been somewhat distracted by the arrival of our first grandchild, born on 27 September, so our blog has taken second place for the past couple of weeks! Since the steels were installed on 23 September, the Insul Hub team has moved on to install the Damp Proof Course (DPC) on the middle floor.  […]

The steels for the basement/middle floor interface have been delayed for several weeks; everyone is trying to get their orders fulfilled and the fabricators are swamped with work.  Some of our steel beams are standard but several require fabricating to attach plates or other connectors to make the structure work. They finally arrived a week […]

The backfilling took a good deal of time but was finally completed at the end of last week (17 September) with David and Martin winning more fill from around the site.  It is now much clearer where we will require additional contouring and banking to join the house with the upper part of the garden. The […]