Progress report Week 3

Well we are starting to see things growing now. The foundations are in place, the drainage is a bit more sorted, and we have a number of holes in the walls to check the levels for the new joists which arrive on Monday.

these are the various posts for this week The foundations and walls etc
Things inside the new kitchen Insulation
Things inside the old kitchen! Demolition

Beginning of week 3

This is the view from the bathroom window after one day this week. I suspect it will look very different by Friday. The builders are talking about starting to break into the house (the new kitchen bit) within a week!!! so by this time next week the dust may well start in earnest. The builders have been brilliant so far with very little dust making it inside.

Week 2

here are the photos and comments from week 2, it will probably be updated through the week.

Progress report Week 1

Last Friday I was looking forwards to the demolition of the garage the following day. Since then we have lost a garage, lost an outside cupboard, gained foundations for most of the outline of the extension and had 3 different skips on varying bits of the front garden!!! It's been a good week with fantastic weather so we've been very grateful for that.
garage removal
week 1

The view from the current bathroom window shows the missing garage.

foundations

The foundations start and the rather large skip on the drive is now 2/3 full of blue/grey clay. photos

Day 1. The Builders arrive!!!!

 

Where a garage once stood for 70 years!!

 

 

A seriously heavy skip ... we even added the heavy wooden posts to this before it was collected.

 

Here is my pile of metal and plastic .. to go to the tip!

 

A very nice Skip man. So I gave him the lead flashing as a tip!

 

I couldn't resist this one. My car in the back garden. Never to be repeated! EVER!!!

 

The builder arrives, impressed with the removed garage and he is pleased to tell us that we wont need to take down Eddie's wall.

 

An hour later a seriously large skip arrived! Digging starts tomorrow!!!! Scary!!

The garage has gone

The garage has gone the video is here and photos here

And so it begins!!!!!

The extension we've been muttering about for about 8 1/2 years is really going to happen. Tomorrow friends are helping us remove the garage, the skip has already arrived for that, and then Monday the builders will arrive. It's been a mythical extension for so long I'm not sure I can really believe it is going to happen.
The builders are estimating 14 weeks from now (unless the loft conversion happens!) so that means that if everything goes to plan we should have a very different looking house with loads more space by the end of June!!!!!!
There will be lots of photos and lots of skips to follow......watch this space.

kitchen cupboards

the temporary kitchen is gradually growing. here are the photos.

New Kitchen cupboard

This afternoon has been about insulation and a cupboard, for more photos see here