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

All internal work this week has been suspended in the interest of health and safety as a clear and safe access could not be provided in or out of the building. The reason for this was the route that the gas and electric take to enter each unit runs along the length of the front of the building and this was the work programmed in for this week. At the start of the week British Gas were on site and by mid week Northern power grid commenced their share of the works required to get the building live. Next week we will have light and heat and the internal work will continue.

Once the units which had been plastered the previous week had had enough time to dry the decorators were on site to prepare the units and then apply the mist coat.

Once the mist coat has dried the 2nd fix M&E can start, prioritising the kitchens and then into the bathrooms. By working in this sequence it free's up the next trade which is the joiners who start to fit the kitchen units.

 

Externally this week the bricklayers and renderers completed the front elevation, this then allowed the scaffold to be stripped in preparation for the installation of services next week.

The dry-liners were back in force this week starting their 2nd fix, the closing up of the units walls. Once they had a couple of flats completed towards the end of the 2nd week the plasterers arrived on site and started skimming.

With Autumn approaching and the annual increase in fuel costs more than likely to be announced in the coming weeks the insulation work being undertaken on Centenary Way over the last two weeks seems extremely relevant.

The final job to complete before the walls can be closed up is to double check that all relevant areas are sealed and that ply pattresses have been firmly fitted to all required areas to support the fixing of kitchen wall units, hand rails and shelves.

Both Electrical and Mechanical 1st fix is progressing well this is enabling the dryliners to start the close up of the walls in the first set of units early next week.