Friday 7th October Rescued by E H SMITH

As I explained yesterday this morning I set off to E H Smith at Bovingdon,
and explained my predicament to the guy there (I am sorry I never asked his name)
I took with me a sample of the existing brick (IBSTOCK SURREY MULTI)  - with holes - see below - and he had a look and selected this Terca brick for me and we went and found a sample and decided it was perfect.
I collected 50 of these bricks and spread them around the car and 30 minutes later was back home.

The Terca bricks are made by  Wienerberger
click the link and if you look around you will find the bricks.
they come from exactly the same part of the country so must use the same clay
Here is a picture taken Friday lunch time showing the new brick in Place - with no more holes.

It looks nuch better without the holes I am very happy with this result.
While I was away getting the bricks everyone else carried on building walls and Kevin finished off the big wall on the side;  here are a couple of pictures. One showing Kevin finishing off the wall and the last one for the week shows the situation as of Friday evening.
both walls 99% complete , Hopefully we will start to prepare the substructure for the block paving on Monday.

its time for the weekend - a great job done by everyone this week.

So here we are both walls done  - whats left to do

• Spread the drylene
• Spread the sand
• lay the bricks
• check soil is compacted
• lay foundations front wall & Planter
• Build front walls (we may delay this)
• Build planter

I have to fit the 9 lights and then get Richard the electrician to come and connect it all up to the sensor.

Final  word of the week - Special thanks to Kevin the Bricklayer master craftsman!