More bricks and blocks onsite. Found the team debating how to do the nib pillars each side of the large bifold doors.

At last, a big day, our brickwork has started.  It’s the second sort of “forwards” day – the first being when the new slabs went in to form the floors of the new parts.

The front of the porch has been removed, the kitchen ceiling has gone. Pantry gone!

The screeds have been dug out and we are down to the slab.  Good news is that the internal walls look to be based on the slab.  Good.  However, there’s not enough clearance for the underfloor heating, so the slab has got to come up as well it seems.

I can see now too where all the pipework for radiators and the bas fire is running.  (Not seen the cloak room though. )  The gas pipe for the fire interestingly runs right across the centre of the room in a groove in the slab.