house progress

For the past couple of weeks there have been lots of small jobs happening on site. I've noticed the progress as I've been looking around, but it hasn't been like the major work at the start that gave an instant huge impact.

This was my effort from the other week. It's the old painted wall of the "add on" external laundry.

The little doorway goes into the crawl cavity under the house where the existing hot water system is housed. This will end up under the new internal stairs. As the brick wall will be visible with the new stairs I wanted to strip off the paint and go back to the natural brick. Paint stripper and the high pressure cleaner were a magic combination and had the paint off in no time. The rest of the white wall will be either demolished or covered over.

This is the central double sided fire place with the blue board sheeting that the stone finish will stick to. The back and side fascia boards were put up.

The rest of the stud walls went in. There's not a real lot of walls as the new extension is mostly open plan.

Last Friday was a busy day with the plumber and electrician here roughing in. This tall stud wall is the kitchen with all the appliances going along this wall. Behind it is the laundry. I have stuck up the sections of plans all around the house so that the contractors could refer to these for heights of power points, taps and plumbing etc. These are the joinery plans that the cabinet maker has started working on.

Here's the fire place in the box ready to be lifted into the its cavity.

This was a bedroom window that we've now sheeted in as it's become an internal wall. This is actually my new office and I'll have the exposed bricks covered to the full wall height with open shelves. The blue board will be rendered over to match the existing fawn coloured render.

This was the old back door now also sheeted in as it will become a new bedroom in the existing house with cabinets covering it on both the new and existing house sides.

Next week the concrete polisher is due and then once he's finished it's all go with about 4 trades coming in and some major work happening such as wall, ceiling sheeting, windows and doors plumbing and electrical fittings.