Here we go again! We must be mad
Second extension will give us a new kitchen diner space with separate utility room plus a fifth bedroom with en suite in space vacated by the old kitchen and dining room
Week 1 – Day 1 – 27 January 2014
Parts of the foundations from the old garage that used to be on the site show themselves.
Plus what looked like an air raid siren, some other rusting metal work and some ‘vintage’ bottles
The ground to the front of the extension was very crumbly so had to be shuttered before concrete pour…
Day 3 – 29 Jan Even so three trucks of concrete required to fill the foundations
Day 5 – 31 Jan – Foundations complete. Soak-away in and rain drains installed
Brickwork, Insulation and sand arrive
Week 2 – Brickwork to damp course mostly complete
Week 3 – 11-Feb – Main brickies arrive and it begins to rise. Weather causing kitchen area to look like a pool
Day 14 – 13-Feb – Window openings appear. The are higher that usual for kitchen cabinets to fit beneath
Day 14 – 13 Feb – Oops extra window installed to front……
Day 15 – 14 Feb……But soon remedied
Week 4 – 16 – 17 Feb – Beginning to be able to imagine what the bi-fold door will look like
Day 19 – 20 Feb Uprights for the steel work installed
Day 20 – 21 Feb Scaffolding erected
Week 5 24 – 28 Feb
Up to roof height – steel delivered for over back doors
It’s a big one
Steel Uprights ready for main steel roof supports
and toward the end of the week the steel in place
Week 6 – 3 – 7 Mar
Soldier bricks complete the work that the brickies need to do, for now at least
Week 7 – 10 – 14 Mar
Skip arrives!
Week 7 – 10 – 14 Mar
Vacating the dining room and moving table to the hallway in prep for the breakthrough
The calm before the storm
The chimney is stripped of marble. Nick brought his rubber hammer to make sure non was chipped
The roof is partially demolished in prep for the steelwork. The old beams are exposed ready for removal
Our new kitchen door way is nearly ready. All the wood is gone from the dining room
The walls get the message – They are on the way out
Uncle Moss’s M&M Crane on site to lift the beams
The beasts are in place
The old column is being stripped
Supports – looking a bit hairy…
Week 8
Foundations for the new wall between the new kitchen and from room
and the new wall in place plus RSJ
Week 9
No Progress – Issues with building control re roof construction
Week 10
No Progress
Week 11
Welding on the steels
Roof arrives
Week 12 – 23 April
Hurrah! First side on complete with velux framing
A day later and opposite side and rear pitch i place…looking good
Shaping up in side. Should be a nice space for entertaining
Middle window slightly longer which looks good
The side velux should get some much needed natural light in to the back of the kitchen
Couldn’t resist getting just one more velux added – just to balance things up
Soffits on
Can see the outline now and looking much more balanced that before
Roof battening
Nearly complete from the back
…and from the front
All the velux in now
a vast amount of first fit electrics to go in now
24 June
Scaffolding down Guttering up and first fit electrics almost complete
Looking forward to getting our house back and not having to eat in the hallway;-)
Rear door installed
Roof Insulation and bulkhead in for downlighters
Windows on order, so boarded for now
Plasterboard on
19 July 2014
Plaster work complete and Underfloor heating in
awaiting the windows
Screeding done
Our new ramshackle kitchen part painted with some of the lighting installed
Speakers installed
A view from the Lounge – from room squared off
when one door closes………
Daniels bedroom windows being installed – The archers slit is the side of the ensuite window
also kitchen door now moved to utility
Side windows in
New Corridor to Utility and Kitchen takes shape
Old kitchen – New Bedroom for Becky
New kitchen installed
