More nerve-racking thn the Building Inspector- will Sparkie Nigel approve of the changes.
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The extension is all dressed and ready for the next arrival of the concrete lorry and the block-work is taking shape inside. Now it is the extension's turn. The opening for the French doors is made to the correct size. This will also be the main way in for the frame. Blocks are also put in for the foundation slab for the extension With the slab done in the chapel, blocking out begins. The wooden frame will sit on the blockwork ......and we can at last start to see the room design for real on the groundfloor at least. Having rescued these from the debris and noticing my dds' horrified faces, I thought I'd better check that they knew what I was up to. So what did they think they were? After the shortest of pauses one responds that they were clearly a torture device for those babies not willing to be christened in the chapel. I think she was clearly influenced by the rather stern portraits of the preachers that are associated with the chapel that we have found :-? Undeterred I cleaned them up and painted them. I suspect they are not from the earliest days of the chapel but functional (as a guttering bracket rather than torture device) nonetheless. Who would have believed it- the original estimate for doing the foundations is long gone. "Why the delay?" I hear you cry. Well it seems that concrete lorries seldom venture into this part of Lincolnshire but finally another comes along... The ring foundations are all set so now we can do more digging and prepare the steel reinforcement for the floor slab. The plaque on the front of the chapel was badly degraded. It was so bad that the stone-smith said he needed to sand it back and start afresh..... and look what he did- doesn't it look smart The stone-mason said it was very nice to work but a tad unusual, as it isn't stone but a strange concrete mix!
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