Saturday 14th September - next post will be the house more or less finished.......

Off on holiday, and hopefully, when we return the house will be more or less finished, some bits outside still to do but electrics, plumbing, gas and boiler installed and floor ready to receive a final finish, all walls painted and maybe doors hung.......

In the meantime, this is where we are at, plaster up in en-suite, and pipework for the shower, plaster finished in kitchen, boiler room, and pantry, all insulation up on outside walls, trench dug for gas supply from meter.

A few pics, and see you all in a couple of weeks.......

2nd bedroom, plumbing through wall to en suite

second bedroom plasterboarded

en suite plastered

gas pipe

wall where kitchen sink will go

10th September - Bedroom two getting plasterboarded, and cracks in the kitchen floor, again!

7th September - one from last night, before the rains came

Insulation up on garden wall - ready for the Rendalath lath..........

SEPTEMBER - up to 6th...........

A busy week, things going on, boiler room plastered, bedroom two in process of being fitted out, drains finished/repaired, gas man coming tomorrow (I think), last parts of framing for the Renderlath going up.  

We have ordered a wood burning stove - Barbas Unilux-30 from http://www.bonkandco.co.uk/, will get our brickie to restore the chimney.

Waiting for the Rockwool wall to be done properly, as the installers omitted seals between metal work, and installed without any DPC, etc.

Very random order, but I hope you get the idea. 

  DRAINS

dribbling drain - now repaired and cemented in as above

   BATHROOMS

When digging out for the gas pipe came across the rain water drain which had a hole in it, which may account for the occasional smell - now repaired and waiting for the gas pipe to be put in, maybe tomorrow.

Why do floors do such things, it was fine for a week, and then exploded

 

now repaired

 

boiler room plastered

chimney/fireplace

battening out for insulation and then render

Thursday 29th August

 A few pictures of the insulation that has been replaced, ready for the Renderlath lath and render to go on.  All covered with membrane, and ready to go once Rockwall have repaired their parts of the wall.  

You may recall that this is a specialist wall, required as part of the Building Warrant, as it is a long wall, next to the school and needs special safety/fire measures.  This initial work was carried out on contract on Kevin Edwards/MTS watch. Rockwall carried out the work knowing that there was no DPC on top of the brickwork, and not requesting it. They did not put stop beads, or sealant between the render and metal work, etc. etc.  

John has cut back and shaved the render as per Rockwall's instructions and inserted DPC so that they can come back and do the work correctly, as they should have done in the first place.

Renderlath lath is ready to go, and the render has been ordered and will arrive on Monday.

The drain saga has been investigated and the leak in the 'trap' has been repaired, a better solution for the rainwater exit pipe has been found, but this will not be re-installed until Rockwall have carried out their work, and their mess has been cleared up.  Then appropriate gravel will be put in trench, pipes laid and supported from below so that they do not run back to the rodding pipe, and then covered over with the chips that are going around the whole of the house.  

One whole side of the house will then be complete!  

Just the rest of them to get done.........

House kitchen/front door

House master bedroom/front door

Rockwall prepared for corrections

Rockwall prepared for corrections

Rockwall prepared for corrections

no DPC

no DPC

wall and drains - pipes removed

wall and drains - pipes removed

27th August - Tuesday and todays finds are...............

Well, I am back and have taken some photos - some explanations.

Today found two more faults........ one maybe more serious than the other. 

Nail through Rubberseal roof - coming up from Rockwool wall

Always had a worry about the drains, and today there seems that this worry is confirmed..........

Kevin Edwards told us that he had asked for Building Control to look at the drains when they had been done, back in January, but told us that they were too busy to come out - now wonder if this was true!

The new drain from the en-suite bathroom to master bedroom

leaking!!!!

BUT, good things happening too

kitchen floor in process of being levelled

gas pipe for cooker in place

gas supply starting to come into house

gas pipe outside boiler room

floor levelling in second bedroom started

Rockwool wall - before, and note no DPC.......

The wall cut back for repairs and to place DPC which was missing, however, there was DPC over the new part of the wall that Kevin Edwards had built......

nibbled brickwork showing serious damage when the render was removed

DPC now placed under rain stop/drip

Sunday 11th August - tomorrow will be the last post for a bit, as I will be away until next week, can't wait to show you lots of exciting developments - I hope..... when I get back!

Behind the dust are men with machines..........

And some of the levelling has started to take place 

sitting rom

kitchen

kitchen

sitting room where wall came down

sitting room

sitting room