Work continues ...

It's been a while since I posted, partly due to laziness and partly due to the fact that whilst a lot of work was happening, not much of it could be seen. There was a lot of effort ongoing with drainage and other such things. Building Control got a bit picky about the drains tests but finally they've passed so the massive trenches everywhere can start being filled in. 

This means that it's now full steam ahead, and last Friday the floor of the 'cinema' room was boarded and Adrian has been busy with all the cabling for the projector etc. He had to go under the house for some of this, and enlisted a small (and very willing!) helper to get into the smaller spaces under there!

Meanwhile, we've also spent a couple of weekends stripping wallpaper - the hall and upstairs landing were NOT FUN!  The living room much easier as it all came off quite well. My Dad was roped in to help with the living room, and he assisted in removing a built in cupboard on one side of the fireplace. We also discovered there's a backboiler in the fire place (damn!) so that will have to come out. 

Oh, and the roof tiles finally arrived (national shortage apparently) and the roof is now done.

View of the back of the house, with lots of people working on the roof

So, that's it for now. In less than two weeks we will move out for a month so the builders can really go for it - knocking down two walls and putting up a steel beam, complete rewire, fitting kitchen, knocking through to new downstairs toilet, putting in new boiler and radiators, and finishing it all off. Blimey, that's still quite a lot, innit??