Site Meeting 01 - Stripping out in Progress

Jigsaw of brickwork to extension

Rear extension demolished 

Ground floor front room

First floor rear bedroom

 First site meeting in Hanley with the on-site contractors team, Sanctuary Housing client, contract manager, clerk of works, and myself, the project architect.

The stripping out of the existing house is almost complete. Plaster from the bottom half of the walls has been removed so that DPC works can be applied.

The rear extension has been demolished also.

Issues discussed at the site meeting included confirming the contractor had all the information needed, such as electrical socket locations, door undercut heights for the whole-house heat recovery ventilation to work properly, and drainage locations, etc.

We also talked through the air-tight strategy for the retrofit, and I handed round some samples of the special tapes and membranes that would be used, as well as a sample of the sheepswool and woodfibre insulation boards.