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 10

Again another quiet week while all the building regs are sorted for the loft conversion. The weather hasn't been conducive to doing much work on the roof for much of the week anyway until the weekend. This week the builders have blocked up the windows in the bathroom completely as the main bathroom window will be in the back wall not the side wall (or the study wall as it now is) so we now have no natural light in the bathroom or the kitchen.
They have moved the soil pipe so it is now inside rather than out. And we have a mole hole! For those who don't know a mole hole is defined as

mole hole -noun a cupboard, usually under the stairs which holds a large amount of "stuff" often including vacuum cleaner, torch, hot water bottles and random things needed at unexpected but regular intervals. It is unusual but not impossible for a house to have two mole holes, this is not advised however due to the extreme confusion which usually results when "stuff" is returned to the wrong mole hole.

This means our kitchen is now back to the size it was when we bought the house and we remember why we wouldn't buy the house unless we found a way to make it a little larger (just as a temporary measure, one which lasted 8 1/2 years!!)

We had a few icecreams on the roof today as the sun is out!!