Week 20-22 - Flood Clean up

As I am sure every Cumbrian (or anyone else that owns any kind of news giving device - tv etc) knows we've had some floods. Seeing as we haven't started on any of the flood defenses for the building yet and are quite literally on the banks of the river, it got a little wet. 

Needless to say it was rather [insert expletive adjective here to taste]

We were due a big tidy up on site anyway and had a skip booked for the next week already. It  has taken a good few weeks but we have now tidied all the original and the flood mess. By the way, if anyone lost some terrible 90's films on DVD, a copy of 'to kill a mocking bird' (complete with students annotations) or a 8 pack of butchers choice sausages in the floods? They made there way down stream to us and i will return them to you for a small fee!

No photos of the flooding im afraid, i had bigger problems on the day, plus its not something i want to reminisce in the photo albums over. Having said that the flood does come with a silver lining. We did not loose any materials (got them all up to 1st floor) and there was no structural damage. Seeing the flood happen first hand helped a lot with confirming what flood defenses we need to put in place should be - water comes from places you would not have thought.