The pad stones which will carry the steel beams which will support the back wall of the 1st floor extension now in place. Had to cut out a corner of the house to put them in! I did it in 2 stages, first the inner skin by cutting access on both the side and back of existing building, leaving one brick of the corner intact.  Then placed pad stone and bricked up back of the house again, next day, took out the one brick at the corner thus only digging in 100mm to the corner so the outer skin pad stone could be placed. Steel is ordered and should arrive this week. Once it is in place I can get on with more bricks! Will soon need to go up another lift with the scaffolding!

two 100x150x600 pad stones installed at corner of existing building

one 100x150x900 pad stone installed on new blockwork wall.