Quick catch up

As you can see all the plastering has been completed and we are now painting, well when I say we I mean Christine!!

So what have we been doing, well, we have had the electrics completed and now turned on. All I need to do is change the lights in the bathrooms to Zone 2's and also put grommets in all the old sockets and hopefully that will be it and it can be signed off. Job done!!

Next I have began to plumb the waste in for the new kitchen, is has to run off a 50mm waste pipe as the distance from the drain to the waste is so long so I did this and it took most of a morning just show that what you think will be easy takes ages!! but Job done!!

I have fully fitted the utility room so now for the first time since we moved in two years ago waste water from the boiler runs into a waste pipe as opposed to a bucket as it used to. The Utility room has in it the units from our old kitchen plus old sink/washing machine and fridge freezer so pleased with the outcome there as I only had to buy a worktop at £30. Job done!!

I am also now just about finished fitting the smoke alarms something I did not realise that I had to do and they all have to be interconnecting and run direct from the fuse box so this we again another job that I was not expecting and again took up half a day but job done!!

I have been spending the last few evening making up the kitchen as it came flat packed so we now have a large number of kitchen carcasses in the living room poor Christine, gets a room back and then I take it over again!!!.

Off work on Thursday and Sunday so hopefully some more progress to report then.

Thanks


Garry

Some Pictures

The attic after Christine painted it



Another picture of the attic


Looking into the utilityroom and down stair WC



Our new stair case, it has all been plastered


The window in the room above the garage, the room is now completely painted



En Suite Rad now plumbed in and ready to go



Shower plumbed in and ready for tiling



New computer room now painted

Sorry for the lack of info

We had the builders in for the two weeks i was on holiday and the Wed - Fri after the bank holiday, so where are we up to.
Well all the plastering has now been finished and Christine has been painting away. We have painted the attic room and new study. Also the en suite bathroom above the garage has been plumbed in and had had its first coat of paint.
We have bought all the tiles for the bathrooms and I am hopefully going to get this started tomorrow. We are waiting for Screwfix to deliver a radiator for the attic room tomorrow so that I can finish the plumbing. The good news is that we now have a working boiler, hot water and gas. It sound crazy but it was fantastic having a shower in our own bathroom again and not having to go to Christine's mum and dad every night to have a shower.

So we are getting nearer and nearer completion (I hope) Will try and post some pictures as that will show you how far we have come.

That's all for now.


Thanks

Garry & Christine

The work keeps on going

Trying to figure out if we are making progress or not!!
The builders have finished their contract of works, i.e. the full construction, however I have kept them on for a week to really push forward whilst I am on holiday.

We are making headway, slowly.
In the last few days we have finished the living room!!
Built all the partitions in the attic so the staircase is now blocked in, also so is the en suite,
I have completed the first fix electrics in the attic and awaiting them to be check off by the council,
Plastered the en suite in the new bedroom above the garage,
Plaster boarded the ceiling in the bedroom above the garage, (Now ready to be plastered)
Completed the insulation in the attic, what a job, took one guy 3 days, (Being signed off be building control tomorrow, fingers crossed)
Removed the boiler so it can be repositioned in the Utility room,
Began to knock down the wall from the house to the Utility room,
Completed the joists in the Utility room
and finally,
Plaster boarded the new dining room walls, only the ceiling to go next.

















Garry & Christine

What have I been up too

Hi everyone,

Sorry about the pictures but I am having real problem re sizing them for the blog when I do re size the colour goes really funny. The program I was using was on my main PC but the mother board has gone and died, could be the dust, and that is my bad excuse. I have put my hard drive into Christine's dad's PC last night as their Windows XP has broken down, so when I have time I will up load the pictures there.
The builders have pretty much finished on site. They have fitted the French doors and en suite window in the attic, fitted the stair case done all the tiling so we are now officially 'water tight'. however the list of jobs I have to do is huge :-

Build partition for study next to Attic room,
Build partition for en suite in attic room
Build partition for stair case into attic room
Insulate attic room plus study,
Plasterboard attic room and study,
Install en suite bathroom
Install en suite in new bedroom above garage
Knock wall into utility room
Install new back door from utility room
Install 8 fire doors and 5 standard door
Install Utility room
Insulate above garage
Insulate all floors
Plasterboard garage ceiling
Fit kitchen
Plasterboard new dining room
Then paint everything etc!!

So tonnes still to do, but we plod on and I am sure we will get there.
The builders although they have finished I am planning to keep them on for a week or so to finish a lot of this work.

But Christine and I have been busy, we have partitioned the Utility room from the garage,
started plumbing in the utility room and en suites, fitted the down stair toilet, plasterboard all the bedroom above the garage, partitioned in the bathroom installed the windows in the bedroom.
We have also finished all the plastering in the living room and Christine is off work next week so she will get this painted and we can move back in there.

Pictures, I will try and publish tomorrow.


Blog soon


Garry & Christine

xx

The bedroom above the garage soon to have an en suite

Same room but looking towards the front

Attic room

Another picture of the attic

Roof detail

Roof detail

Roof detail

Dormer before windows fitted

Rear extension roof

Rear extension roof

Drains from the new extension

More drains and first fix plumbing

New man holes filled in

Picture of en suite from bedroom

Inside the en suite

New stair case

Wall spliting garage and utility room

Pictures of the house

Pictures of the house

Last picture of the house