New kitchen window opening

This gave me a huge headache all though it all worked out fine in the end (subject to the building control officer giving it his blessing)... The brickie arrived almost mid-morning owing to family commitments and van trouble and then decided that the way I was going to do it was OK but he could make a better job of it and match the new opening to all the others in the building by putting a lintel on the inside skin and forming a soldier course brick arch on the outside skin. He also made the opening a little smaller in order to ensure that the reveals were made up of full & half bricks. He also thought it best that we lost the UPVC window cill on the new window and matched the rest of the cills in the property by making a cill from creasing tiles.
Anyway, to cut a long story short there were 4 tradesmen on site, the window surveyor (Steve from Anglian - thanks for being so helpful), Natalie the kitchen designer from Howdens and me Mum & Mike turned up to take the shed etc. I also hadn't slept at all on Thursday night so I'm sure you can imagine how well I coped with all the bodies & decisions - lesson learnt! Get some shut eye even if it's just a couple of hours. So a big thanks to Graham the brickie for steering me in the right direction, Gary, Richard & Matt for their hard work, tolerance & understanding this week.
Graham worked till 7 or so on Friday night before we thought it best that he went home and came back on Saturday. So he finished up on Saturday morning and also dealt with bricking up the fire opening, bricking up the pantry window (inside & out) and replacing some bricks where pipes etc had passed through the wall.