The Wates team and our sub-contractors would like to thank you for your continued patience whilst we have been on site at Second Avenue.

Our site will close for the Christmas period on Friday 21 December, and will re-open in the new year on Wednesday 2 January.

Can we also take this opportunity to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

 

Well yet again the weather has tried and failed to beat the guys on site. The brickwork was brought to completion on Tuesday, leading us nicely onto the renderer commencing work on site with us. The internals are continuing to progress at a good pace with the boarders completing their 1st fix works then moving upstairs to grid out and start to close up the flats that the M&E guys have 1st fixed beforehand. The joiner is following the M&E 1st fixers installing his plywood patresses for future 2nd fix work.

 

 

We have had all kinds of weather this week to test the teams character. At the start of the week it was mild but raining, despite this the bricklayers worked on and progressed with the brickwork which is now up to the eaves. The plaster boarding and building of partition walls commenced in the flats upstairs and the joiner followed on fixing the door frames and window boards.

 

Towards the end of the week the weather took a turn for the worse and the temperature dropped below zero therefore restricting the bricklayers to do any work on the superstructure. As we are a member of the Considerate Constructors Scheme the team showed some Christmas spirit by de-icing local residents cars with them and gritting the road that runs parallel with the project whilst they were waiting for the temperature to rise.