Tuesday they finished the rendering on the outside of the house, just needs a coat or two of paint now.
They also removed the back door and put in the opening for the new kitchen window.
As you can see, the kitchen is pretty much unusable, although that’s mostly because it’s covered in a thick layer of [...]
Came home Monday night to find that the opening for the French Windows in the lounge, and the new office window have been created, the frame put in place and then boarded up. The new windows and doors are being fitted Tuesday week.
Sadly, they didn’t look at the drawing before starting on the office [...]
The guys have now built the new lounge wall so it’s not one huge open space downstairs any more (well, unless you count the lack of door). The steels have gone into the ceiling cavity and are being bricked in tomorrow, then welded together before the inspector comes to check them. There’s one [...]
In fact, it’s barely some walls now that they’ve started hitting things downstairs.
They cleared off the covering of the original steels which is going to be replaced eventually.
The lounge looks quite large from the front door. I particularly like the light switches which are free hanging in the middle of the room – shame [...]
I think this is about the point at which we stop living in a house, and start living in a building site. They started downstairs today; we spent the weekend packing up and moving everything from the lounge that we could, and as much as we could from the hall/kitchen area.
This was what greeted [...]
I’ve lost track of the days on the build, but they’re still making progress.
Out side we have a big pile of wood (which was tidied up by Monday night). It appears to be mostly the frame of the roof from the kitchen.
The lightwell in the en-suite has been framed, although the window isn’t in [...]
It’s been a while, but I was in Tokyo for a week and then didn’t get to see the house in daylight when I had the camera to hand for a bit.
So, the roof frame was built, eventually covered in weatherproof tyvek and the hole where the window will go was boarded up – it’s [...]
Friday morning the scaffolder arrived and put in the ’second lift’ which allows the builders to finish off the block work on the bedroom. They arrived in the afternoon and got on with that, meaning they don’t have to turn up on Saturday now.
The snow has now cleared in the back yard so you [...]
Day 8 and the brickies arrived hoping to be able to lay some bricks. The weather conspired against them, but they did move the bricks from around the front of the house to the back in piles on the scaffolding ready for when they started.
Day 9 and it’s sufficiently warm enough for the brickies [...]
Two roofers arrived today and removed the tiles from the kitchen. They’ve sorted out the good ones and put them in the corner of the patio as these will be re-used at the front of the house on the new roof to blend it in with the existing roof.
Sadly it snowed again that afternoon [...]