Day 299 - Shaun has left. the building

A significant day - Shaun's last day. Shaun was our foreman from the first day of the job but sadly won't be around for the last...

Unfortunately he's decided to leave and setup on his own, he'd tried to hang on till the job was finished but no joy...

His last gasp was building the utility room. And wearing a distinctly non-corporate t-shirt that proclaimed "Tell your tits to stop staring at me"...

So farewell and thanks to Shaun, he may not have always been on top of the paperwork (!) but he came up with some great ideas, ran a tight ship with the guys and we can't fault the overall workmanship.

Good luck in whatever you do Shaun...

Day 89 - A head for heights?

Today we had a meeting at the property with Shaun and Ian (the plumber).

As Ian was on the phone when we arrived we got to go up on the scaffolding to see the 1st floor progress

But first we had to put our hard hats on




They've knocked through the old external wall in our bedroom


View from what will be our bedroom looking towards the front of the house


Looking into our bedroom and through to the spare room as the wall has come down


Inside view of our bedroom


Hanging free


Our former bedroom window, now bricked up to become the wall for Liam's room


This is Lee and a glimpse of our main bricklayer who's name I've forgotten - doh




Looking down the gap to the big steel supporting the house


Front builders storage area - aka front garden


Shaun going back down the ladder