Day 385 - Carpentry

We are finally getting closer to moving in. After the builders have (mostly) finished we ended up with a list of carpentry type jobs, storage, boxing in etc.

Thanks to the wonder of Which Local  (a trade recommendation site for Which subscribers) we found Huw who is working his way through our list of jobs

So far he's built and fitted shelves for the airing cupboard in the main bathroom



Boxed in the UFH mainfold in my 'walk-in' closet


And boxed in the ethernet cables in the Den



We decided to get rid of the oversized metal cabinet that had been housing the patch panels. Instead Huw has boxed in and neatened where the cables come out of the wall and we'll position the panels inside a regular furniture unit.

Day 308 - Juliet Balcony

The Juliet balcony has been fitted

 

 

 

Day 188 - Cupboard Plastering

The bedroom shoe cupboard has been plastered
 

And the ensuite

Day 161 - We have roof!

Finally the flat roof outside the Master bedroom french doors (above the lounge) is complete. This means we're water tight, finally.

 

 

Day 153 - Plastering

 
Master bedroom

 
 
En-suite

Day 140 - Electrician & Studwork

 
The electrician has started....

 
The studwork frames are mostly up

 

 

 

 

The boys thought they were fun to run through

 

 
These are the pipes for the underfloor heating, currently in the middle of our new bedroom cupboard, but will be more to the right and boxed in.

Day 118 - Panoramic

You'll need to click this one to see the detail but I took the opportunity of having no walls to do a panorma of upstairs

 

This is view across from the spare room, Liam's room, Master suite and the main bathroom

Day 110 - Bedroom roof

The roof for bedroom extension goes up

 


Elsewhere the carpenter, Pelham, and his assistant Graham are fixing the roof beams - it seems many have sagged or are just wonky and as we're now replacing all of the ceilings everything needs to be level.

Day 105 - Upstairs Update

Things really moving now...


This is the old bathroom window, part of the old external wall, viewed through the new bathroom window.


The wood is the outline of the bathroom wall



This area will be the master bedroom ensuite


Roof trusses

Day 101 - Henry's Son

This week we met with Peter from Henry & Sons, our window suppliers, to measure up.


That's Peter on the right

We also met our chippie, the unusually monikered Pelham. I'm interested in unusual/old names from my family history studies and this isn't one I'd come across before. According to a quick search on t'internet Pelham is an old English name which may mean tannery town which is slightly less glamorous.
I also found that Pelham is the first name of P.G. Wodehouse and that according to the wonderful, if grammatically incorrect site, YourNotMe there are only 62 people called Pelham in the UK.

No pics of Pelham but here's a slightly blurry pic of his great work on the 5th Bedroom roof




And here's the 5th bedroom


View from the 5th bedroom doorway looking forwards.


High level window window in our bedroom which we're hoping to turn into an opening window, albeit with occluded glass, otherwise we have a ventilation problem in the master bedroom as the french windows aren't tall enough to include a top opening window without looking odd.


And here's the french window opening

I also made myself somewhat unpopular with Graham, our master brickie as we decided the main bathroom window (that he'd already built) wasn't big enough - eek! For some reason our architect John had drawn the window pretty small on the plans and it was only seeing it in real life that we realised it would be better if it was bigger. It should only cost us a replacement lintel to change though.

Day 97 - Sticky plaster?

We popped round to the property for a meeting with the electrician (think of a number of sockets and double it!)

The plaster has gone from the hallway and landing (as well as the carpet)






No, I don't know what the loo roll is there for either... probably best not to think about it too much!

as well as the wall between the boys room and bathroom (the plaster was so badly popped on this wall it was held on by the wallpaper!)




and between the boys room and my study (the wall that moved when Shaun pushed the door)


More of the old external wall from our bedroom has come down


And this big crack in the stairwell will have to be 'stitched' with some metal spines.

Day 83 - Steels are in, walls come down.

After a hectic week we finally got up to the property on Saturday, with the boys, to check out the changes since last weekend.

As the steels came on Tuesday we were hoping for major changes, which we got!

The chimney wall has come down so we can now see the full size/shape of the store room








And the old back wall of the lounge has gone too now the big steel is in place to support the upstairs


Here's the big steel



Upstairs our old bedroom now has temporary steels




and holes in the floor



A view from the back



And the Thorpes pose through the new study window