Quick Pre-Ski Update
Work has started on the loft! All very exciting, the scaffolding went up at the start of the week and materials started arriving the same day. The first job is to make a hole in the front of the roof and post all of the beams into the loft space. This was done on the day the whole of the South East was halted by gales, luckily Chelmsford was calm at 7:30am when the crane turned up!Our architect has also come up with a scheme for the kitchen roof so hopefully we can make some good progress there. Nobody had been able to come up with a beam design that would allow us to have large glass doors so it's nice to have a solution at last.
On the DIY front the utility room and cloakroom walls are progressing well. This is a before plastering photo, after will follow soon. Lots of precision carpentry has paid off and our reclaimed doors now have custom made frames to live in. You can see how much sawdust this created in the dining room/workshop.
The ongoing saga of sorting out the gas, electricity and water supplies continues. The upstairs meter was finally removed but apparently National Grid don't own the supply pipe. Neither do nPower, maybe it's Transco... what a kerfuffle. Either way the pipe is seriously in the way of where our cloakroom sink needs to be!
Latest update, Transco just called to get our boiler man to saw the pipe off 'live'. What a stylish solution, we could have done that weeks ago. Guess we will be keeping the windows and doors open that day.
posted by Ali & Dave @ 9:34 pm
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