Week 7

It's still very exciting to come home from work and to see how much progress has been made on the extension while we are away.  Wednesday I came home and as I approached the house I thought, maybe it rained harder than I thought because it didn't look like much had changed since that morning. I couldn't have been more wrong though!  As I got closer I could see that they'd built the new wall that will be between the kitchen and the utility room.

 They also put up some steel girders (support beams) in the kitchen.

Thursday and Friday they put up more steel girders and the joists. 

Also on Friday they finished bricking (is that a word?) the outside wall next to our neighbour's house.  However it appears I've forgotten to take a picture of that.  I will do that tomorrow morning.

I'm not really sure what the plan for this coming week is, but I look forward to seeing the changes when I get home.

Bathroom design and decoration choices

 We still haven't found the 3D printout we got from B&Q for the bathroom nor have we had a chance to go back to the store to get another copy so instead I'm just going to post the 3D pictures I have made from playing around on B&Q's online bathroom planner.

These are views of what the upstairs bathroom will look like

we're thinking about this border tile

We like the light tile for the walls and the darker for the floor

I've also done a design for our downstairs bathroom

There will be a cabinet under the sink

I like the purple color called Dusted Fondant 

We are thinking about something like these for a splashback behind the sink

Going back to the kitchen now, these are the tiles we have chosen for the walls and the floor

And we've got to decide between these two paints, they're both supposed to be olive green, one is the B&Q brand and the other is Dulux

So that's the bathroom and kitchen pretty much all planned out.  Now we need to start thinking about the new bedrooms. 

Week 6

Another week over. Despite some really rainy days, the walls have really come along this week.

This is how it things were looking at the side extension mid week



And by the middle of the week in the back they'd built the walls up more and left the openings for the window over where our sink will be and for the french doors.



On thursday they did more work at the back of the house. They've had to start using scaffolding now.





And here is where we are up to since Friday afternoon






It's all starting to look "real" now!

I was going to post the 3D picture we got of our bathroom design, but it seems to have gone missing somewhere in our house so we'll have to go back to the store and get another copy. I'll post pictures of the tiles we like for the bathroom and kitchen then too.

Here's hoping for a sunny week!

One month on

The building work has begun! They started on 9/5 (or 5/9 I should say for our American family and friends) while we were relaxing on the beach and by the pool for two weeks in the Dominican Republic. The house looked like this before we left:

While we were away they started digging the foundation. The weather was a bit poor here but they still were able to make decent progress and we came home to this:

Over the next couple of weeks more digging was done, we have a skip in our drive way that has been filled to the top and emptied at least three times.


The building inspector came and reckoned they hadn't dug deep enough to pour the concrete yet, so they had to dig some more. Finally they got the go ahead to pour the concrete.



Last Friday the bricks, sand, cement and insulation were delivered.

The clawwwwwww


So this past Monday the brick layers started their work



These photos were taken mid-week. They've actually done quite a bit more since then but I haven't taken the photos yet. I'll hopefully post another update next week.

So, this is about where we're up to on a month into the project.

Tomorrow we're going to the store to order the units for our bathrooms. Next on the list is tiles!