We can stop holding our breath now

We are extremely happy with the colours, it is going to work really well with the roof tiles and guttering.

The brick layer is making good progress, with two-thirds of the portico and master bedroom now done since Wednesday.



He said he would be going faster if it wasn't for all the mud out the front and down the side of the house. In fact he can't take another delivery of bricks until they put down some boards over the drive way.



We are very happy with the quality of the work, from our untrained eyes its looking really good and he has done a good job of spreading the colour variation. The brick layer asked several times if my wife was happy with how it looks, which she is.



The internal plumbing appears to be done, but the sparky has not started yet. We still may get the plaster going up late next week, so lock up is still a possibility before the end of the month.