Pad Stones in now.

A busy day at the cottage with the window guys still there sanding and priming the sash windows....although they were often found on the river bank with the float rods.  They are having a bit of a working holiday; not that we mind as we are paying for the job, not by the hour! Oliver did have a very large eel (about a metre long) that he couldn't land that looked a bit scary.

Earlier Phil from Massey's had done a site visit with a view to putting the pad stones in for the the steelwork.

As you can see it will need 2 beams of 3.5 metres to bridge the span. The hens were very curious to look at the beams.  We had taken the steel calculations to the building controllers in Winsford on the way to dropping Nila off for his haircut......It was like taking a child to the dentist, we had to drag him in there.

The beams will sit on pad stones and hold up the ceiling timbers and most of the house. After a discussion about the height of the beam we settled on 2.3 metres so the stairs line will be level with it.

We also noticed the entrance porch doorway was being progressed too.

Back on the river bank we found this little fellow. I think it's a house mouse, but if anyone knows better please let me know.

Finally with storm clouds brewing, or as we say in Yorkshire "it's looking a bit black over Bill's mother's" we called it a day.