While waiting for the rest of the bricks to arrive there´s not much I can do, but hubby has been busy with the walls. It took him a day to build the bay window for the left hand front - still not completely finished but we´ll have to wait for the stone cladding for the bottom part of the wall to arrive.
Two days work bricklaying The weather has been fine and warm all weekend, so I sat on the balcony "laying bricks". It´s not a work for the fainthearted - the brickslips are very tiny! I decided on the Tudor red from Maple Street - trouble is I need more bricks and have to wait five weeks because they are out of stock ... There´s enough to do though, so I won´t get bored.I have finished one side of the large chimney, leaving the bottom free for some York stone cladding to go there all around the house. When all the brickwork is finished and pointed the slates go on the roofbits, that will also be a job for me - the fine details are left for me to do.
In the close up you can see that the bricks look real - all we have to do now is wait for the grout to arrive so we can point them.
It´s fun working with them - they cut really easy, so creating half bricks and slanting the edges can be achived with a carpet knife.
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