House alterations and extensions

[wrighar]

Portaloo gone.  Job done!!

Waved the builders off this afternoon!!

Time for a glass of something

Congratulations :-)

We have a water tight roof (membrane) with 3 rows of tiles at top and 3 columns around both hips
Facia and soffits on too.

Capping tiles due on Monday and in fill the rest of the roof tiles.

[sgould]

It's a relief that it's done.  But the builder was really very good.  I have some construction experience and I would put together a snagging list from time to time, only to find that the boys had already fixed most of them already.

Job came in in good time and a touch under budget.  We did use up the contingency, but that was all work agreed beforehand and not due to claims for "unforeseen events".  Overall not as stressful as expected.   We ad scaffold up and a new roof in five weeks, then the garage replacement and the somewhat unexpected need for a new flat roof, not just a re-felting.

No plans to do any more work like this anytime soon, but I'd been happy to use these guys again.

[wrighar]

Still progressing.

Floorboards in the new 1st floor now laid
Stud work for dividing wall up
Some old exterior facing brick gone
Sparkies first fit due tomorrow

To come:
Scaffold down Tue 5th
New windows in Thu 7th
Bi-folds in Mon 11th (week of)

And we've gone back to architect today for a article 2 variation (?) to change a couple of bits ... lets see how that goes.

[wrighar]

Scaffold down,
Most upstairs plaster boarding done
Building control been, just need to see finished article now
Windows going in
Old exterior wall coming down.

[sgould]

They did my windows mainly from the outside before the scaffold came down.  But we were still living on the inside!!