The garage has walls.

Its been a couple of weeks since the floor went down, and the now the walls have been going up.
I set a layer of engineering bricks round the inside skin to create a cavity tray type DPC (damp proof course), then put the first layer on the outside on top of the DPC with weep holes.

Then spent two days laying the first course of blocks on a bed of cement being very precise in getting them spot on level in all ways. That took a long time i hear you think? but its crucial to get this first layer spot on for the thin joint system to work properly.

As a result, almost entire inside skin went up in two days, just a course and a half to go, which by timings will take 2.5 hours :) Thin joint system is QUICK.

We then spent last Friday laying some bricks for a change. I think the choice of brick and cement colour are perfect.

Next update will be more brick laying i would think. Lintels are on order, and we are awaiting roof truss prices, yes i am behind on ordering those, but hadn't realised the thin joint to be quite this quick.

The garage has a floor.

We picked the windiest day to lay the concrete! recorded 42mph winds, any faster and we'd have had waves in the concrete :)
Me and Dad made a concrete shoot up to make life easier, I'd seen a video on Youtube of someone in India doing the same,

But it didn't work for us!

And ended up having it squirted as far as the lorry could get it and using rakes to drag it around.

After a lot of very back braking work we used a length of wood to scrape over the top and get level, then used a home made bull float to get a smooth finish.

And finally just tweaking a small bit that wouldn't smooth out, before going round the edges.

Now just have to wait for the concrete to set. I'm going to level the ground out with the digger behind the garage now i can get it over there (once it's hardened), before i build any walls up, with any luck thats next weeks job, then start laying bricks as well :)