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Week 14
5th May to 11th May |
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8th May |
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All
foundations laid. Base brickwork started. Lintels over pipes.
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Week 15
12th May to 18th May |
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13th May |
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17th May |
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Pipe covering
void filled with shingle
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Most of the kitchen
removed
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Utility room
removed
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Temporary
kitchen / utility room
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Week 16
19th May to 25th May |
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23rd May
Today was supposed to be the finish date, but with 8 weeks of water
board delay, a new date is needed.
The builder provided a revised project
plan showing the tasks from now until the project's completion and the
end date of 18th July, advising that is the worst case date, it has fat
in it and he actually hopes to finish a week or more before this.
It's a bit close to our wedding for our
liking, but this water board thing wasn't foreseen and as long as it's
done before the wedding we don't mind that much.
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Doors
arrived. This is 3 of 4 panels.
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Kitchen now
stripped of floor, old pipework and electrics
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The new floor
level makes the room feel a lot taller
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View to
utility room
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Blockwork
completed
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The height of
the wall needed was 100mm higher than the architect had stipulated on
his drawing
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Foundations
laid for the upright steels to support the main supporting steel
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And the other
end, inside the existing kitchen
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Week 17
26th May to 1st June |
1st June
Builders did not show up this week, citing poor weather as the reason. |
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Week 18
2nd June to 8th June |
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4th June
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Steel girders
arrived. These monsters are the main ones spanning the whole length of the
extension.
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Moving them
to the back was difficult. They say they're going to put them in with
"lots of people".
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The final
resting place for them. You'll note it's quite high, as well as
long.
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This girder supports the
horizontal ones (will go in place of the wall to the
right of the boiler). Note that being propped up it seems to be too tall
- it isn't, they have to dig a hole in the ground to slide it in.
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Before they
can do that though, they need to insert this large padstone. The one on the right, goes on the inside half on my
wall, half on the party wall inside the house and the one on the left is
on the new extension wall.
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They start to
remove the outside wall.
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With the
reduction from the walls coming down, the inner door has been replaced
with a steel security door
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Digging to
find the drain (requires a spur into it from the new toilet) ... 7 feet down!
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Skip number
17 arrives
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Week 19
9th June to 15th June |
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11th June
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Installing
the main steel girder
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Once on top,
it's then slid into position
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Being bricked
into place
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Supports
inside the kitchen holding the house up. These will remain until the
cement around the new bricks has set
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13th June
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All of the
girders are in place, bolted and welded
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Note the
joists have bowed over the years. They'll need to be packed out to stop
the tiles on the bathroom above cracking.
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This should
be the last shot of this wall as it's about to go. I guess we'll then
find whether or not the girders will actually hold the house up!
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18th June
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All the walls
are now down and it looks like the steel girders are holding the house
up
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Horizontal RSJ onto vertical RSJ and padstone Oh, and yes
the toilet
is still connected!
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