28th June 2010 - Staircase arrives!

It's all coming thick and fast at the moment. The 3 staircases arrived on Monday morning. The oak bits (balustrades, spindles, etc.) are locked away for now, but the treads will be fitted ASAP to make access to the first floor much easier during the 1st & 2nd fix.
Meanwhile, electrics & plumbing is being installed, guttering runs are being worked out, fasciae/soffits/bargeboards are being fitted - basically, there are no parking spaces left in the road because of all our vans - and the vans from Suzanna's building site just along the road....

27th June 2010 - Roof tiling has started

The tiles are now being afixed to the roof - that's the Sandtoft Goxhill, Dark Chestnut, hand-cut clay roof tiles. The gables end & dormers will use the same tile, but Autumn Brown colour.

Naturally, The Mrs decided to spend hours debating with me whether we (she) likes the colour or not - and that's after 20,000 of them are on site (& paid for!) and 4000 of them are fitted. How about "it's too late to change them now, love, and anyway, they are a jolly nice colour, and even if they're not, you don't really notice roofs, do you?"

25th June 2010 - Plumbing

And plumbing is underway too:

25th June 2010 - Roof, roof

The playroom roof is built, and is a work of art, just like the main roof:


And the roof tilers turned up yesterday and have set out all the tiles ready for fixing - fingers crossed that the tiles are an agreeable colour - we can't really tell the colour/appearance until they're fitted!

17th June 2010 - Roofing


And lo, the roofing continues:

14th June 2010 - The roof room: it's a whopper!

Well, they've done a great job on the roof timbers - the chippies are extraordinarily proud of what they've built, and it shows. Everything seems very straight, neatly cut and very tidily finished - and bear in mind that all of the roof timbers will be essentially invisible once it's tiled in, so it's "hat's off" to the guys for building it so well.

The roof room also turns out to be whopping huge - at last a room that's truely awesome! And today they cut the spaces for the 2 Velux windows which look out over the valley. I got them to set them low enough so even the midget wife can see the farm.

6th June 2010 - D-Day

The ridge, the gables, the loft room - all is taking shape and 20,000 Sandtoft roof tiles are being delivered this week.