Lead

Some progress on the roof today: lead flashing along the ridge and joining the glass to the tiles (or where the tiles are supposed to be). It doesn't look too bad from inside, but we might have to do something to cover it up eventually.



Everything's slowing down now. Its looking nigh on impossible to be finished for Christmas. Everything apart from the plumbing is waiting for the wiring to be done on 7th of December. And as the plumber is a law unto himself, who knows how it will go...

No more stone-throwing...

Its a glass roof!! Albeit leaky round the edges until the roofers come back (hopefully tomorrow) to finish off. It lets an amzing amount of light in, even with a grey November sky



Now for a rant.
Uusually, its a nightmare trying to find a plumber, let alone get one to actually turn up. Ours has turned up unannounced (AGAIN!) and fitted the pipes for the central heating system.
If he'd told us he was coming we'd have been able to tell him that we're not having radiators, we've decided to install electric underfloor heating instead. Grrr....

And the wall came tumbling down. Again

So we've now got our big kitchen-diner!
There's a lot of floor there, it'll be fun to tile...



Spent today painting the wiondow frame and the barge-boards. The weather forecast doesn't sound promising enough to do any more unfortunatley.

Let's look through the square window

Yes, we've got a window!! But not a door. The made-to-measure door didn't fit. Ooops...



We've also got internal walls, so here's the utility room and the loo:



We've also gained frosted glass in the velux in the loo, so modesty can be retained. Tomorrow, we say goodbye to the wall, and even more sadly, the sailing boat door :-(

Bit of a mess

No real progress yet this week, other than a glass-less window and door being delivered, but hopefully tomorrow, the joiners wil be here to fit said window and door, build the new stud wall and knock down the existing stud wall between the kitchen and dining room. So I thought I'd kick-start the messy business by trying to get the wallpaper off the chimney breast. Given the amount of plaster that came off at the same time, I think we've a big job on our hands...

There's a slight chance the glass roof may turn up tomorrow too. But I bet it doesn't.

Had an expensive evening of internet shopping. Bought a combi-microwave, a multi-function oven, a 5-burner hob and an extractor hood. You don't want to know how much it hammered the credit card!

Concrete evidence

We finally had the builders back on site last week. On thursday, we had another skip so they could tidy up (and luckily no-one crashed into it this time - long story)


On friday, we gained a concrete floor.





Should have the joiners in on monday and tuesday to build the internal walls. Exciting, isn't it?

Waste water pipes....

Thouroughly exciting one today. We've got a pipe.
It connects the bath drain to the hand-basin drain in the bathroom and means we won't have a pipe on the other side of the wall, going through the glass roof. Which is nice.



I am a bit concerened that it might be a little too near the roof line for comfort though...



We should be getting the window and door-frame tomorrow. Its only the door-frame as the joiner forgot to make the door. Good grief....

A Roof!!!

After a fairly uneventful week on the building front, well, nothing happened at all until yesterday, we've now (nearly) got a roof!



Its all felted and waterproof, including temporary cover where the glass roof will go in a couple of weeks.



One minor point is the lack of flashing at the house end, combined with the lack of drain (care of the roofer) means the bthroom sink empties out onto the roof, then falls down the gap, into the kitchen. Good job we'll be knocking it down then.



On the positive side of things, we've got our washing machine plumbed in again, and it was a lovely sunrise this morning :-)