Ed again...Yay! Our extension is very nearly watertight, only a few more layers of slates to go on the left hand face of the new roof. In more exciting news, there are now four veluxes in the roof and the trifold door, the back door and the window ought to be in by the end of the week which is really pleasing. Of course, getting to "wind and weather proof" stage means paying another tranche of the invoice. ARRGGHHGHGHGH. Ahem. Sorry, I'm over it.
Of slight concern was the need for another steel to be put in to support the removal of the old fireplace in the kitchen. Gavin knocked a little hole into the wall in the kitchen to check that the party wall between our house was two bricks thick. He took out one brick and, fortunately, it is two bricks thick otherwise we would be left with a handy serving hatch through to Number 49.It also occurs to me that once we have the doors and windows in the new walls our cats won't be able to get out on their regular ablutionary expeditions. Obviously, Helen lacks sympathy for the poor little furry beasts but I suspect that I might have to break out my "second cheapest in B&Q" jigsaw and winkle out a little hole in the new door for cat ingress/egress.
Hopefully, tomorrow I'll get home early enough to instruct Helen to take a picture of the TOP of the roof before the light goes.
Right, offski. It's the finale to tonight's exciting edition of Masterchef "The Professionals".
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