Thursday, 11 October 2012

Shop Transformation Part 1

So the builder started with an empty shop, complete with a previous owners bored childrens' graffiti on the concrete panels, to new blockwork internal skin in just 4 days. The pictures speak for themselves:

I've never seen this shop so empty!
I didn't see any of the graffiti as your eyes just got used to it.
Once there was nothing in there it's glaringly obvious




The bucket catches all the drips from the old leaky roof

The building supplies arrived

Amber the shopcat#2 inspects the goods for quality.
Yes those are apples on the floor - I just
didn't get around to picking them up this year.
I do have a dodgy hip you know!

The builder Jon laid a load of blocks on the first day.
His mini laser level came in handy as the floor
dipped 2 " in the far corner.
All the other corners were within 1/2" of each other.

The concrete mixer is in the right place. When
he rinsed it out at night he could put the waste
straight into the inspection pit along
with any rubble he could find.

Here's Amber inspecting the work



Another section of wall partially built

The back wall is going up quickly now

The back and one side wall completed as far
as we can go before the roof is removed.

Another view of the back and side walls

That isn't an enormous mixer it's my wide angle lens!
Here you can see the other side wall partially built




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