Last day of construction work before Christmas

As well as being the shortest day, today was the last day of work on site for a while - except for Chris and Pete that is, who are continuing to sort things out inside the Mill.

Whittles are now on holiday until 3rd January and their ground works subcontractors Pyes have taken a slightly longer break, and will be returning later that week.

So before I switch the computer off for Christmas(?) here are a few photos of where work was up to this afternoon...

First floor joists have now been fitted in the first three houses.  You can see the coat of plaster where they are fixed to the blockwork - that is there to ensure that airtightness is maintained.  Getting the floor joists in will give the bricklayers something to stand on so the walls should rise more quickly again in the New Year

Terrace C foundations are underway.  The black pipes sticking up are for the district heating.  Note also that the guard rails along the river bank have been fitted over the past couple of days.  

This is the gable end of building 2, where the guest rooms will be.
We were hoping to reuse the wall that was here but it ended up having to be rebuilt.

Looking up Forgebank Walk from outside plot 10 (no 14)

The attenuation pipe is finally in on terrace D.  No more pecking away at rock thankfully.  There is a manhole still to go in outside plot 17 (no 21)

The new owners of the Forge have kindly agreed ;-) to let us dump a pile of rock in their parking spaces whilst we work out how best to use it!  This has been pecked out from Terrace D.  It is the right sort of rock to go into gabions but unfortunately most of it is the wrong size for that, and even a bit big for drystone walling!

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