Insulation!

   The house is now fully clad in insulation- things are moving forward except on the kitchen front. Our clever re-purposed stainless steel catering tables came back from fabrication and don't fit. Terry assures us he will sort them out Tuesday.

Our new bedroom

With floor and plaster - wet plaster on external wall is part of the airtightness strategy

Lots of wall insulation

Karen loves her ear defenders

Counter needs some help

You can see the new architecture, and see the link to the planning images now

These colours are adjacent on the colour wheel, but miles apart in the flesh

Due to shuttling around, I deleted the lated photos from the camera before putting them on this computer. I'll add the latest tomorrow. Can we decide on the render colour before the render boys leave?

Two steps forward and one step back

The project is still steaming along, The front door is in, and there is one window to go. The external insulatin and render contractor will be arriving this week, and we are about to order the stair, which will take a few weeks. The only setback was the timber floor in the sitting room/dining room; the suspected woodworm activity was throughout and the joists must be replaced. Better to find out now!

Tom came for the weekend. He and Karen emptied the middle bedroom, sanded the floor, varnished the floor, painted it and we moved everything back in tonight. Tom also built shelving for the big back bedroom. And we managed to watch both Rugby World Cup matches.


The old patio door comes out - it will be re-used as the front of the studio





Bedroom 5 is gone - two storey entrance hall is revealed

Floor ready for rebuilding







Full size drawing - the best kind! I'm doing the ventilation system and it's a steep learnng curve for everyone.





We have a load of rubble to shift



Is it really Week 7?

We have now reached the really stressfull part of the project. We have moved out to permit the final demolition to take place, while trying to minimise the mess and damage to the things that are still in the house. Karen spent a lot of time today trying to save plants and the soil they're in from thick layers of concrete block dust and is not a happy client today.

Drilling out the sunroom door

 The windows were supposed to arrive on Tuesday, but they didn't. At first it was thought that they had not left the warehouse in Poland. Then they told us that they were stuck in Oxford while the other part of the load was taken off. In the end, only six windows arrived on Wednesday.

Should be 18 windows and doors in here

The humungous bedroom window goes in

The bedroom takes shape

The new kitchen door is in, and the slate floor is coming on.

We were pretty worn out this week, and yesterday were at the house installing the airtightness barrier to the ceiling of the middle bedroom before going to a film. We emptied the attic and Karen sorted it our today on her own. Oh, and I started my teaching job on Friday, so all in all there's a lot going on. The boys finally got the veranda and sunroom slabs poured, and started moving the rainwater gulleys in anticipation of the external wall insulation.