Exciting times and change are upon us. Well, me anyway. My mother’s mother already lives with us and has her own rooms downstairs in our house. My father’s mother is slowly becoming more dependent on others to help so after a long chat we offered to have an extension built with a living room, bedroom and facilities in which she can live while being under our roof. It was all finalised and we’d been in talks with the architect and builders for a while, suffice to say they started on the 3rd August.
I thought it would be a nice idea to document the build progress with photos, which not only gives us a record of how things are going, but also satisfies and adds water to my photography drought.
The plan is as follows (lots of pics in this post I’m afraid):
So that’s what we are looking at in design form, we’re very lucky in that the plot of land we have still leaves us with a nice garden at the back of the house (this is going on the side).
The main issue we’re facing at the moment has been with the grabber lorry which has been coming to collected the excavated earth from the front of the house. In theory he was meant to be coming twice a day to clear everything but he hasn’t been, which means we’re a little backed up. The digger and dump truck have had to go back today as they’ve finished their hire period yet we still have another load of two of earth sitting in the middle of the site.
Currently the two chaps are working on the footings for the extension and are laying down the blocks on top of the concrete. It’s strange watching it all take shape.
The estimated build time for the whole project is 8-10 weeks. Which, at the rate things are going, is looking about right, providing we don’t have any more backing up due to late arrivals of things.
I can’t help but feel the whole thing looks smaller than I thought it was going to be but I may be thinking differently when the walls start going up. The main issue we’re going to face, I think, is trying to get the gas company to relocate the meter. There’s still lots to be done, moving of boiler and venting from the kitchen are the two main ones which aren’t self-contained within the new annexe.
It’s certainly been interesting watching the garden transform. The garden was raised above the floor of the house by about 2ft so there was a lot of excavation to be done to bring everything down to the correct level…and then some for the footings.
The only picture we managed to get before the build work started wasn’t the best but it is all in dire need of attention. Well…was…
You can see the rest of my images in my Extension set on Flickr, which will be updated daily or every other day if I don’t get round to it daily.
Filed under: General, Photography | Tagged: architecture, build, building, construction, development, extension, home improvement
And when your done you get to sleep again!!!!!!!
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Mmmm sleep. How I miss thee. <3