Progress report Week 5

It has been a wall building and insulating week.
for more detail see the posts here, here and here

Wednesday week 5!

Its been a busy day again. I had a chat with the builder this morning. Over all we've had two good pieces of news today. The first is that they will not be knocking the corner out of the house until the walls are up and the roof is on!! That's much later than I was expecting and will mean that the house remains secure for much longer It also means that the extension stays "out there" rather than coming inside with all its dust and mess. The second piece of news is that the scaffolder has worked out how to get the scaffolding up whilst still allowing Eddie next door access to his garage which is brilliant. Otherwise I think his car would have had to stay outside for weeks. We now have double skin walls complete with insulation in between up to a fairly decent height.
Chris has also removed some of the plumbing which went up to the bathroom, he has replaced it with the work he was doing yesterday this means that the hot water now theoretically has a shorter run to get upstairs. There aren't photos of the pipes Chris removed!!

"You want to make another hole in another room.... oh ok!!!"

The title says it all really
today it was the turn of the bathroom to have a small hole knocked in it to get the new plumbing up for the bathroom. The existing plumbing comes up the wall downstairs which will be knocked out, as we don't want pipes coming up in the middle of our living room we decided we ought to move them!
Yesterday Chris put a new stop tap in our hall so we don't have to find it out in the street if ever we need it. He's got a new pipe bender and is making the most of it.

Progress report Week 4

It's a 4 day week at the ranch due to Good Friday but lots has happened this week.

 

For all the photos go to here

The new centre of operations wall.

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!!