The Wates team and our sub-contractors would like to thank you for your continued patience whilst we have been on site at Brown Royd Avenue. Our site will close for the Christmas period on Tuesday 24 December, and will re-open in the New Year on Thursday 2 January.

Can we also take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !

The final few sections of the scaffold have been removed so everybody can see the building in all its glory, it certainly does stand well and fits in with the surrounding area. The works to the flats are continuing with the pre-finish items such as the doors in the flats being fitted. Externally the ground workers have joined the team back on site to start with the levelling up of the perimeter, a trench has been excavated for the gas supply to the flats. We have set flags on edge to the top elevation separating the site from the land above the site to act as a retainer as there is a step in the ground. The base for the cycle store has been poured so that this area can be flagged. The communal areas are now being skimmed so that the plywood flooring can be fitted early next week.

The finishing touches to the external envelope of the building were completed this week, leading us on to the scaffold coming down. Internally the second fix to the ground floor is moving along nicely. The decorations to the first floor flats are now complete so that just leaves the ground floor flats and the communal corridors to bring to a finish. The curtain walling to the corridors was installed just leaving the section to the stairwell to complete then the reveals and walls can be finished in these areas. We now have the power to the flats and the water supply to the flats has also been connected to the mains.

Busy week again on site at Brown Royd. Brick work is all but complete, the rendering to the block work panels has been done this week, rain water pipes, gas pipes and mastic sealant have all been completed towards the back end of the week to enable the scaffolders to come to site next week and start dismantling the scaffold. Internally plumbing and electrical works are complete to the first and second floor flats.  The joiner is also now in the ground floor flats with two of the kitchens already installed and the second fixing has started. Decorations to the second floor are finished so they are now concentrating their efforts on the first floor.

 

Last week was Wates Community Day and the guys on site all mucked in to clear the footpath just outside the site. We cleared all the over grown shrubbery, made the ground level and laid some stone and compacted it with a roller to make it a lot more suitable for locals to use.

The job itself is coming on leaps and bounds, the block work for the rendered panels is complete and brick work isn't too far behind, another good week next week and it shouldn't be too far away.

Internally electrical works to the communal area are ongoing.

Joinery second fix is progressing well throughout the first floor.

The tiler has been back on site this week to carry on with the kitchen and bathroom areas to the first floor.

Decorations have commenced to the second with the decorators concentrating their efforts on the flats bringing them to a finish before moving down to the first floor.

It's been another action packed week on site this week, we have had trades starting and trades finishing. The partitions walls are complete now so the plasterer has been following them and plastering the flats. The flats are now complete so that just leaves the communal areas to finish plastering. The brickwork is getting ever closer to its summit. The joinery is continuing to the first floor flats, the decorator has been on site mist coating the flats on all floors and the staircase walls and ceiling making it look a lot brighter. Meanwhile on the top floor the electricians have been carrying out their second fix works to the flats.