The Extension's Finished!! So what's next?...

After months of waiting for the plaster to go off, its finally done and painted:



The bike shed, sorry, utility room has its clothes drier, but still needs a bike-storage solution



The dining room is furnished, but a bit excessively so as we've moved onto the lounge.



Today, the firplace was changed:


Next its the wallpaper and possibly the carpet.

We might even do something about the nursery too...

Still not finished..

Its always the little jobs isn't it? And now we're using the room again, its even harder to carry on with the work.






The plaster still isn't dry....


And I thought the point of paying professionals, was so you didn't have to patch up their bad jobs yourself :-(

Now you see it...

...now you don't.



Although the plasterer did disturb Fi's day off. Grrr....

Whats that smell?

That smell turned out to be gas :-(

So we had our house-insurance appointed plumbers out to have a look (after Transco had confirmed we had a leak and cut the gas supply) and they said it looked like dodgy, non-corgi plumbing. Kevin.......

As soon as Kevin heard his corgi-registration was threatened, he was round like a shot. He worked his way round the pipes and discovered the leak was due to a dodgy connection to the boiler, which was nothing to do with him! So he's fixed it, we have heating and hot water again. And a rather ugly hole in the wall....

And Finally....

....we're in!!!!

After Fi spent a large proportion of the week scrubbing floors (helped by her mum) we finished off on Saturday. Built the shelves for the larder and spent the day finding new homes for the contents of our kitchen.

Today, the utility room window and the front door got their first coats of gloss.

Its so nice to have a proper kitchen again!!!





And just to prove it wasn't just Fi cleaning the floor:



The "new" plumber is here on tuesday to fit the toilet and sink, then thats it for tradesmen.
Lick of gloss on the internal doors and one more coat outside (next time the weather's good on a weekend) and we're just about done.

And relax.....

Shiny shiny

Its been a while, but once again, we're nearly there....

Paid off the builder, so he's gone now.

Tilers have been and put up our shiny wall tiles. It needs grouting, but it should look something like this when its done:





I made the most of a dry saturday and got 2 coats of undercoat on all the exterior woodwork, so just need a dry sunny day to finish it. Hmmm, could be waiting a while...

Plumber comes next tuesday to fit the toilet and sink in the downstairs loo. And then we're done!!!!!!!

Looking all-white

Painting has happened!
Not much, but the utilty room, cloakroom and "lobby" (architect's naming convention) now have their walls and ceilings painted in glorious white eggshell paint.

Joiners were here today tidying up the skirting boards, which they really should have done properly the first time. Oh well, not much more to go now...

For now, how'd you like the bike shed? :-)

Looking in:



And looking back out: