The Transformation - Week 8

This week started with the arrival of yet more scaffolding, this time for the front of the house.  A cause of great interest for most of the neighbours and passers by alike.

 Men at work!

 The old bank entrance is no more, once the wall is sandblasted to remove the white paint it will hopefully look the way it did originally.

 

 Second coat of latex screed on the dining room floor to bring the level of the two rooms together.

 The blocked up door at the back of the room has been re-opened (and boarded up for now) and there were two existing lintels so no need for more RSJ's- bonus!

 The BIG window is in and it looks great.  We won't be able to show the full effect until the scaffolding comes down but it is now a lovely big light room - exactly what we had hoped it would be - the vision turns into reality!

 Kitchen walls now plastered as well.

 Looking through the kitchen door into what will be corridor to Phase 2.

Lining the walls in the Snug has started too.

 New letterbox fitted in the archway doors as the old letterbox disappeared when the BIG window was fitted.

 The first of the rubbish has been removed - metal - and of course more metal has now emerged!

 The back wal in the kitchen with the archway through to Phase 2 now completed and plastered.

 It's great having good neighbours, especially one with a chain saw.  There used to be a buddleia in this space but now in the heap of garden waste to be chipped.

 The chipping pile is growing!

 Re-furbed chimney - looks great as the brickie also wire brushed the existing bricks.

 Despite the builders having taken loads of nexting material out of the chimneys we also managed to remove this - and the same again - from two of the flues.

 The debris emerges from the chimney!

 The utility room with old shelves and cupboards removed ready for the builders to make good so we can have the washing machine and a downstairs toilet.

More good work by our helpful neighbours - removal of yet more buddleia - has resulted in lots of sunlight flooding into the garden and a view of sorts.

 Whilst the neighbours were hard at work in the garden Mike was demolishing the ceiling in what was the original kitchen.  It was bowed in the middle aith cracks in the wooden strapping and potentially could have collapsed at any moment.  This photo will one day be the site of our en-suite for the back bedroom - we hope!

 this is the main area above the old kitchen and the timbers are in quite good condition - not sure the slates/tiles on the roof are quite as good but Ok for the moment.  As you can see the chimney breast is still in place and goes right up to the roof where it must have been capped when they re-roofed the out-houses.