THURSDAY - 28th March

The snow melted this a.m. and it has become much milder - lot of work today, no frozen thumbs.

Next step, the interiors - hopefully we will get remaining ceilings down over weekend, and will have quotes for the internals and the plumbing (which has some queries/problems about the gas supply in to the house).


And the really big job of putting in the sliding doors.  And the render - if the weather stays like today, then it should start after Easter.

Everyone who was here at the weekend thought it was going to be wonderful once it is finished, and were surprised how big the house appears.

Interior of sitting room door.....

... and from outside

the north front of the house......

.. and its threshold

threshold closeup

The back door - difficult to get far enough
 away to take a picture

new main bedroom window

the window catch

middle room window

study/bedroom window

daylight, but the door is up

the other side of the door

WEDNESDAY 27th March - second post

View to bedroom corner window from front door!

kitchen window being installed

bedroom window

bedroom corner window

small bedroom windows waiting for installation

installing kitchen corner window

inside corner window - kitchen

WEDNESDAY - first post as I hope to have some pics later.

Have been busy having big birthday celebrations - but not a lot of work has been able to be done as it is so cold and now snowy.

The windows arrived on Friday and were safely tucked up for the weekend in waterproof wrapping.

Monday work was taking place elsewhere - but the team were back on site yesterday and have got the first, corner, window in.

Architect is coming today to look at it.  Then later today the plumber is coming with a specialist to see about running the gas supply around the house, rather than through it.

FRIDAY - second day of spring and it is sooooo cold

windows arriving...... or as Kevin McCloud would say - we are waiting for the glass

and the windows are here - a bit of a video of them being unloaded - bit wobbly as it is so cold

THURSDAY 21st March - first day of Spring

the old bathroom - where you can see the space for the sunpipe
and the temporary lighting system for night time visits

work to the floor which can be done when its too cold to do external works

Week 10 - Wednesday, drier day today, adjustments to the trim have taken place

More posts and pictures when weather improves - exciting news the windows should arrive tomorrow or the next day ........

Week 10 - weather brings work to halt.

Foul weather, cold, wet, snowy, windy means work has come to a standstill, after the terrific amount of work that went on last week.  Some adjustments to be made to the trim, but builder and architect seem to have agreed on a solution.

sky lights

  sun pipes

rock wool for NW wall

Friday - end of week 9 - Our splendid builder has sent the following pics whilst we were away

roof pic 1 with skylights and sunpipe

outside - ready for render (and no its not another storey - its the school behind)

roof pic 2 with skylights and sunpipes and drain upstands

Wall repaired and partly rebuilt

WEEK 9 ........

Snow - nothing happened to day

Tenders have gone out for internal joinery work, electrical work and plumbing work.

Am away until next Sunday, so no more posts this week.

Windows leaving Denmark on Monday 18th and to be with us later in the week.

Come back next week to see how we are doing!

FRIDAY 8th March - cold and damp

more trim up

old brickwork repairs

and more trim up

more old brickwork repairs

and even more trim up

new rainwater pipe in new en-suite

and more old brickwork repairs

windows now cut out of new boarding