Things are quiet

It has been very quiet in the last week. This picture shows "Walters" toilet and house that our builder is building for one of the workers as when he starts on the flat there will be no space.
On the right is the scafolding that has been put up and ready to remove the roof.

Chimney goes

There's a whole in the roof where the chminey was.

The inside of the chimney - (the flue). Apparently this is the correct way to build a chimney. It must not go straight up.
Note the 70 years of soot caking the inside of the chimney.

Brick counter

Daniel counts the first load of bricks delivered under the watchful eye of Alick. Lots of fun climbing on top of the bricks, in the sand-pit and on the pile of stones...

Let's start!

It has been quiet for the last few weeks. We have been waiting for the submissions to get lodged at the council. This appears to have taken longer than we expected. Finally on Friday, we got our submission number and it appears we can get going now. Our normal saturday stroll to the house happened today. The foundation trenches have been dug and the roof will probably be going off sometime this week. In the rain?

Various pictures of the house over the last 2 weeks.

Outside shower in the rain

This was the playroom / bathroom. Everyone is having an outside shower...















Looking from the lounge to the dinning room.

Looking from our old bedroom past the front door, lounge and to the dining room. That is the length of our house!











Benedict in what is left of the fireplace.

More From the Site Meeting

More pictures from this morning.
This is the lounge looking out at the stoep
From the lounge looking at the dinning room.

First Site Meeting

The client (that's what Kari calls me) was invited to the Thursday meeting. Here he is with the QS standing in the old dining room contemplating what to do with the levels. The plans had the kitchen and dinning/lounge area on one level and the rest of the house a step up. The builder suggested that maybe we should make it all one level.

The only problem appears to be the fireplace that would have to be somehow lowered. We might just get rid of it.

The demolition has started

So action has started! Alick was a little worried about going intothe house. As of this past weekend, PT (our builder) had removed all the cupboards and light fittings and removed the floor boards in the bedrooms. Above picture is in Daniel and Alick's bedroom (will be the guest roomwith door behind Kari and bathroom from where picture was taken.

Picture taken of the main bedroom with studay/playroom behind. This will be the lounge.