Woohoo! Progress!

Came home yesterday to find the trench half-full of concrete and today they've started building!

We're off to France on monday for a week, leaving the builders to it, lets hope the progress continues, and there aren't any "issues".

Its a big hole

Yesterday seemed to invovle a lot of digging. Today we've gained a manhole and a network of sewage pipes. Reassuringly, the toilet still flushes and doesn't cause any flooding, so it works!

Getting beter. Despite the rain, the builders have filled a couple more skips of rubbish and discovered, with the building inspector, that the garage was built on a whopping 1" of concrete. Which means they've got to take down the remaining wall so they can dig it out to put down a sensible amount of concrete.

Notice the open window? thats the front door....

Tidier....

Looks like they've had a skip in to clear away the rubble and have made a start on digging the new drain.

The more astute amongst you may notice our old front door in the place our old kitchen door was. To aid security, they've been nailed/screwed together and shut. Sadly the postman hasn't established this and is still trying to put the post through. :-(

And....

You remember that game you used to play, where you looked for hours at a tray of objects to work out what the difference was?

Well, if you look for hours, you might notice a brick or 2 that have been moved.



I'm assuming there's a skip coming tomorrow.

And back to the blog.....

So we start blogging again.
Just a quickie today. The house extension is starting! And hopefully this blog will record it all.

We're going from this:


To this:



The builders finally turned up yesterday, 6 hours late, unloaded their van, and left.
But today, we have progress!!!