the build has finished

hi, its been a long time and after some considerable pressure :) I thought I had better update the latest on the extension.  building finished at day 47, we had some snagging bits done, general things really nothing of note.  since then Tracy and I have been setting our hand to decorating.  Living room painted a sort of pale blue, and we are nearly prepped for painting the kitchen.  its been slow but the prep work has been time consuming and we have had loads of other things going on, hence the lack of progress and updates to the blog.

 attached are some photos of the inside to get the idea of what we've done.

Day 47

the plasterers did the first outside coat today and the electrician finished off all internal electrics...oooh, spotlights!  Carpenter hung the door downstairs and finished off his bits.

Day 46

the kitchen L shape was broken up and moved to a galley style today so it has really opened up the upstairs.  Lots of faffing with the water meter and pipe work but they got there in the end!! the electrician was also upstairs wiring sockets and spot lights whilst downstairs carpenter fitted skitrting and doorways.  Boundary wall also finished off outside.   Looks like the build will be finished by end of next week.

Day 45

After a long may day bank holiday laying decking, the guttering going up and pipes to soakaway laid.  Plumber hang the rads upstairs and the coving also done upstairs.

Day 44 - Friday 29th April

not just the royal wedding, more importantly the concrete floor went down also!

Day 43

Floor was prepared downstairs for the concrete floor to go down on the day of the royal wedding!

Day 42

Plasterers prepped the outside for render, finished off the lounge, carpenter did all the skirting upstairs and doorway.

Day 41

Plumber started today on the downstairs

Day 40

After an Easter weekend of starting to put up the decking frame with much help from Pete (not the carpenter) and his £600 drill - !! everyone say oooooh, we took delivery of the flooring upstairs and the Plasterers finished off downstairs.

Day 38

Lots of tidying up and plastering done today ready to knock thru tomorrow.

Day 37

ooh, loads of real stuff happening today. double glazing in today - lots of topless men running around talking like market traders - Tracy took a trip to the shops to escape - mind you, we put penny down for a nap and the electrrician unleased the loudest drill to chase out the new sockets - it was louder than the tool to bring the whole wall down some weeks ago....eek!

Day 36 (18th April 2011)

Roof domes in, final prep done for windows and doors fitting tomorrow, and also prepped to start building the remainder of the boundary wall beside the garden store.  Back door came out the kitchen side today ready to move down to garden store, you can see it leaning up agains tthe garage.

Day 35

End of the week and a lot of bits done inside that you can't really see, ceilings going up, lots of insulation  and plasterboard.  Light was fading on this shot.

Day 34

The roofs are on and the wall comes down exposing the back of our kitchen to the outside world.  bit drafty at night.

Day 32

No photo today but plenty of activity with 6 men scrambling all ovre the place all day.  the two roofs went on, the felt roof upstairs and the super cool rubber roof downstairs.  Plasterboard ceiling put up downstairs.  electrics first fix all done :)

Day 31

Roof insulation started going in today and also the electrician was starting to wire up

Day 28

Day 27

Day 26

day 25

more building today and a chance to look around the site at the weekend.

Day 24

we began building the upper walls today, all very exciting!

Day 23

bit of a wet miserable day today, roof work going on and the blocks for the updstairs now up there waiting to be laid.  We marked out all the door ways for upstairs also.

Day 22

So more or less all done on the lower ground floor, just the second skin to go in the interanl wall between the garden store and the toilet room (you can see the spaces to put the bricks in the first pic).  Roof beams painted and floor joists starting to take shape.

the doorway to the garden store and to the left, the toilet window



 for painting the beams...

Day 21

we have a doorway!

Day 20

Away for a couple of days so missed some of the progress and returned to many walls !  great stuff.

Day 17

Built up the outside skin ready to paint with waterproofing tomorrow

Day 16

Well, into the fourth week and the walls are starting to go up now, beginning with the back retaining wall.  Friday’s work was putting the oversight onto the footprint of the site, so now we have a complete concrete floor across the whole site.

The Digger also left us today.

Day 14

After a day out with sickness the work began again in earnest, in fact, everything that needs to go out is now out, and everything that needs to go, can now go in.  The little stack of blocks holding up the house is now visible, exposed but standing strong :)

Day 11 + day 12

We suffered a little illness end of last week and it finally swept around the site so builders off on day 12 recouperating.  steady progress made on Monday though with the lower wall starting to come down.

Day 10

Days 9 and 10 meant the back of the house was taken away.  all that great 1940's building!  the small square hole in the middle of the shot right at the bottom is a little blockwork supoorting the central loadbearing wall in the house.  Next week all the remaining brickwork below our ground floor levelwill be removed and the rest of the footprint of the extension will be built.

Day 8

Starting to take down the outside wall and lower ground floor blockwork starting