When they didn’t come back after the weekend last week it was quite a shock to the system, you don’t realise how much you know they’re there even when they never come into the house! (They don’t even use our toilet)

But I adjusted and then on Monday it was quite a shock to have them back 😆 No pleasing some people!

It’s been the most incredible weather this week, it’s like July or August – never mind April! So we’ve had builders in shorts 😆 But it’s nice weather for them to work in.

Anyway, moving onto the pictures!

Monday…


Now that most of the internal walls are up it’s really difficult to fit the whole thing into one photo, so I don’t think I’ll be doing that anymore! This was the best I could do. It’s looking through the window at the far end, up towards the house.


And then he attacked the rendering on the wall 😛 It was horrendously noisy! We just had it repainted not too long ago, but we still have some paint left so at least it’ll match once the wall is up (that’s some kind of support for the wall) and rerendered either side.

Tuesday…


Roughly the same angle as yesterday’s picture, you can see there’s some more wall! My kitchen is going to be in that corner and my bathroom on the other side of the wall.


And another comparison shot, the wall has been completed and is now attached to those supports. The hole nearest the house is a window in the new downstairs toilet, the one further along is a window in my bathroom.

Wednesday….


Just to add a bit of variety to things here’s a new angle! This is (fairly obviously) looking down the garden. The hole is going to be my door opening out onto the new patio with a window next to it. I picked this picture because today they’ve been doing the insulation on the outside, which is what the silver stuff is, and it looks the same all over so I thought a different sort of shot would be nice for a change. They’ve also put that white plastic stuff round all the doors and windows which I think is to seal the cavity and give them something to put the window/door frames in.

Thursday…


Bricks, lovely red bricks….:D Isn’t it fantastic?!

and finally Friday…

The only problem is we were meant to have a delivery of bricks on Thursday, and they never turned up. Then the manufacturers said they wouldn’t be able to deliver them until Wednesday which is a pain. There are only a few left now so the builders may do the extension to the drive hammerhead instead, as it’s a bit hard to brick lay without bricks!