Before the break

And here we are all painted and ready for gates:

Dashed handsome

The plasterers finished construction work on the wall and pillar yesterday:


The painter is due on Tuesday, then we need to get new gates organised.

Wall Day 2: The Rendering

In between the showers today the builder rendered the wall.


Looks about ready for dashing now.

Driven up the wall

Four months of frustrated dealings with insurance companies have come to an end at last. First our claim got lost in the landslide of others arising from the big winter freeze. Then our house insurer decided that they weren't going to claim the parts that they didn't cover from the driver's insurance, after saying they would. But last week, at long last, the cheque for the bulk of the work arrived and today the builder began with the basic blockwork:



I feel better about the whole thing already

There's about a week's worth of work to do on the wall itself, followed by a new set of gates. At the end we bundle up the receipts and invoice the driver's insurance for anything not covered by our own.