Things are coming on nicely.......


As you can imagine its been a very busy time in our house.  Things have been steadily moving along.  Andrew and his trusty assistant Annabelle have been trying to keep things tidy wherever possible in the garden to keep mess to a minimum.

Annabelle really enjoys riding on the mower and helping around the garden.

 

Before they could start getting the levels etc they first had to fill in the pool and level the whole area.

Once this was done they started marking out the levels of the two extensions as there are two levels inside the house and the ground outside is on a slope.  The bedroom wing of the house is up a step.  This will mean we will have a lovely raised view across the paddock from our new bedroom.

Once this was done they started scraping back for the footings and digging out for the stumps.

One of the weekends our builder bought his little boy to work with him.  He and annabelle had a fantastic day 'helping'.

We had originally thought about replacing the whole house roof but after receiving a few comments on what a good quality roof we had we decided to get it cleaned and repointed instead.  The difference was incredible.

It went from looking very old, drab and dingy to looking almost as good as new.  We were amazed.

As you can see all the local ducks came to visit and have a look too.

Next came the bricklayers who very quickly had the extensions up to floor level.  

This is the view we will have from our bedroom window.

After this very quickly came the framing, gutters and fascias and then the roof on.

We had a short hold up for a few days then as we were waiting for the arrival of the windows.  Once they were here they all went in very smoothly.

This week the roofers came and removed the bars you can see above and i am very happy to say the new tiles on the extensions match our newly cleaned tiles extremely well.  There is hardly any difference at all.  

They are now starting to work on the inside renovations as well as the outside ones.