Kevin The Master Brickie(Thursday)
Today we were lucky enough to be joined by Kevin the master Brickie.
The pictures below show how the day went.
Bob worked on the front wall  while kevin(dark blue jumper) worked  on the side tall wall
This picture - taken at lunch time shows that in the course of the morning Kevin had grown the wall to 27 rows.
and this was now a double wall no more breeze block!

Bob worked on the front wall while kevin continued on the side now standing on the building trestles meanwhile Liam worked hard and kept every one supplied with mortar  I ocasionally supplied cups of tea.


By the end of the day we had really made great progress with Kevin now adding the finishing row of bricks seen laid up the wall above the lamp enclosure - it looks like this will be finished tomorrow.

The next picture shows one of my mistakes I forgot to get the finish bricks for the steps in the front wall, These wire cut bricks are excellent but are similar to engineering bricks because they have holes in the centre - I forgot this and did not mention it to Bob so I take the blame for this. The result - see below is not very pretty

I discussed this with Lizzie and we decided that we could either try and find a similar matching brick or failing that use dark grey engineering brick to finish it off.

I decided that it would be best to try and find a matching brick and on Friday morning I would explain to Bob and ask him to remove the end bricks and I would go to a mega builders merchents at Bovingdon (have a look at their site
E H SMITH
I remebered that they have a huge range of Bricks and very helpfull staff

E H SMITH