Beth's new room

Decking

We have started the deck at the back which will allow us to get into the garden without growing wings first! Thank you Dave for your help.

Beth's new room

Beth moved into her new room so this is the first time one of our new rooms has really been used properly. It doesn't have a door at the moment but it is on its way. We're looking forwards to more of the rooms being used.

Progress report week 21

While we were away at Revive! the builders continued with the plastering. They plastered the top landing, I would have loved to see how they managed that it is high above the stairs and has so many awkward angles and surfaces. They also plastered the small landing between Beth's room and the study and rough plastered the underside of the new stairs.

Progress report week 20

We were rather busy with some guests this week so very little was blogged during the week! The scaffolding came down so it looks like a proper house now! Yeah. They also plastered the study, the bathroom and room that the girls were sleeping in! so the girls moved into the old spare room for the last couple of nights.

Progress report week 19

This week has been plasterboard, plasterboard, paint, plasterboard and ...etc. Tuesday Paul, Beth and Isaac came round to help us with some painting. Thursday homegroup came round for a social time and knocked the partition out between the kitchen and the dining area. Friday the builders have put up the last of the partition walls. It's all really taking shape now.
loft,
utility room,
living room
hall
removing the partition
Beth's new room

Progress report week 18

This week has been another productive one. We spent Tuesday sorting through reclamation yards to find doors to match the ones we have. The builders have mostly done plastering and plasterboarding through the house but they have also knocked the last hole in the house ( in the hall) I am hoping that I haven't forgotten any holes that need doing.
for other photos see loft room, family dining room, outside,

Progress report week 17

Monday the builders spent the day knocking holes in our house and adding windows at the front and back. They also started on the new living room.
Tuesday they made more holes in the house, taking out the whole of the corner of the house downstairs! (It's a good job they had put lots of steel in here and here beforehand.)
Wednesday the electrician put in lots of wires, Chris did lots of plumbing, more stud walls appeared and generally everything in the living room floor has been made ready for the flooring.
Thursday the first coat of render went on the outside and the walls went up in the loft room.
Friday The builders have insulated under the floor downstairs with chicken wire and fluff so at least we know that the new rooms are chicken proof. The floor has gone down today and the loft has had its ceiling plastered and some of the remaining walls. There is just the wardrobe and the tiny prayer room to plaster. Outside the renderer has done the front and the back upstairs so hopefully the roof at the back will be tiled next week.

There are too many photos to put on this post but for more photos see the hall , the new living room, the loft, the utility room , the new front bedroom , the study, the breakfast room

Progress report week 16

During this week the builders have been working hard in the loft, the door frame, last of the insulation and the walls have all gone up. We are now waiting for the stairs which may well be late next week. They have also started plastering up there.
Chris has also done some rearranging and plumbing in the bathroom.

For more photos see loft here, outside hereand bathroom here

Progress report week 15

Week 15 and we are watertight in our main roof again. YEAH

Ridge tiles on the roof, tiles on the dormer and the bathroom marked out inside, it's all starting to take shape now.

When the builders turned up on Tuesday morning with LOADS of dust sheets I was rather concerned. I decided they were obviously going to knock holes in the ceiling. I was right!!!! They've also removed the cupboard at the top of the stairs (and put something there to stop the children falling down the stairs in the night!). Lots of noise and dust followed but the builders have done a great job of clearing up after themselves.
The ceiling now has plasterboard over most of it.
Next week, internal walls.

For more photos from this week see here and here

Lunch in the loft

Paul, Beth, Isaac, Tim and Fiona joined us for Sunday lunch in the loft!! Sunday lunch is maybe a grand description but a grand picnic is fairly true. I know the loft isn't really finished yet and you have to climb up two outside ladders to get up there (Isaac was in a sling as his legs aren't long enough to get up the steps yet) Paul's t shirt says "I'm the Daddy" it was a gift from Isaac as a first father's day present.
Chris and Paul went up on the roof from the loft room window and had a look round. we like to make the most of the opportunities as they arise!

Rebekah demonstrating the position of the en suite toilet

Progress report week 14

Wow 14 weeks have passed since the garage vanished. photos and video and we have an appearance of an extension which is possibly showing signs of coming to an end!! (Not for another few weeks though yet - probably another 15!!!!)
They have got tiles on the roof and will do the dormer ones next week. The electrician has been in the loft and has put all the wires in the right place for the lights and switches. The floor has gone in the loft now, all the windows have arrived (but not gone in yet), the Velux windows in the loft are fitted and also the ensuite and the bedroom main window.

When the building inspector came on Thursday we discovered that we needed more fire insulation in the loft and so we have taken the decision to add another layer of plaster board to the upstairs ceilings!!! More work but it will leave us with good ceilings rather than what we have at the moment. It'll be ok I'm sure.