Shell is Nearly Finished

The main construction of the shell is just about finished with some more internal bits to do but it's not far off now.

Walled up the third bedroom where you could see the original roof before.

Scaffold down on the right extension

The landing looking toward what will be the door for the third bedroom and second bedroom on left

Living room double doorway into kitchen

Knocking through from kitchen into front extension

New wall to replace existing stone as it took up too much room

The front of the house. Still waiting for roof on entrance porch.

The side of the house. Steel just needs to go in at the top to support the roof.

Roof starting to go on at the rear and a few internal alterations

Weather has been a bit crappy the past few weeks with rain and hail holding things up a little and not making roofing easy either.

The builders have managed to get some more stone work done on the right hand side extension to the point it should be ready for roof timbers in a couple of days.

Scaffold is up to complete block and stone work

Meanwhile Jebson Construction have been knocking through in a couple of places inside. We have chosen to remove one of the original walls from the house and build it back up in block work to increase the space, the original wall was stripped of the outer layer of stone to use elsewhere but it left a messy uneven wall that was too thick and took up too much room. The best solution was to totally remove it and build it back up as block work. It would make it easier to plaster too.

Wall being removed to be re-built in block

Jebsons have also knocked through to the third bedroom from the landing to start creating the doorway. Everything needs holding up until lintels are put in.

New entrance doorway to third bedroom

They have also started knocking through into the front ground floor extension from the kitchen.

The view looking into the new extension

The view from the extension looking into the kitchen

Things are starting to open up inside considerably but we have had to get a little bit more stone for the outside than originally thought. Only a couple of sqare meters though so not bad. The roofer was not convinced by the state of the original roof at the rear of the house as the felt had decayed over time. Although we are on a budget it is best to have the roof done now and to be honest the price quoted was decent value so we will have a totally new roof over the whole house when complete. Top job!

Rear stone work finished and walls come down in Kitchen

The builders have finished the block and stone work on the rear extension and it just awaits the roof. They have also took out part of the wall in the kitchen which opens it up a lot and gives us more room in the kitchen...when we get one installed.

It's taken them longer than expected as all of the stone used was stripped off the original outside wall of the house and needed backing off and corners making, but now they can move back onto the right hand side extension which they have already started to do.

There is still about 3-4 weeks work for them, including the internal alterations still left to do.

I am in the process of getting some prices for electrics and plumbing at the moment.

The house is starting to look like a house

The right side extension with walls going up on first floor

The new gable end is coming together too

The stone on the new rear extension. Best angle I can get at the moment.

The kitchen has opened up by removing the wall

How it used to look

And how it looks now

The master bedroom gets more block work

The window to the front of the house

Stone work goes up on rear extension

The rear extension is flying up now with block work almost up to the joists and stone work not far behind. Steel is on order tohold it all up.

View from kitchen into new section of kitchen

The wall on the right will be coming down to open up the kitchen

Stone work on the outside not far behind the block work

Block work on the rear extension

The block work is going up on the rear extension that will extend the kitchen and create a new bathroom.

Front of the house, roof is on and scaffold down

Roof still to go on entrance porch and right hand extension

Block work on the rear extension

View from the kitchen into rear extension

Concrete at the back and roof is finished on the front

Jebson's have had to dig out the floor of what was the storage shed as the floor level in the kitchen was lower so we would have had some levelling issues. Building inspection checked the area dug out and it was approved for concreting which the builders did yesterday (8th March 2012).

They have also fitted guttering to the new front extension as the roof has been completed and taken the scaffold down so we can see much better how the house will look when complete. It still needs the entrance porch completing.

I have a window coming from Nu-Fit in Elland on Saturday to check the colour is what we wanted. We are going to have them sprayed to blend with the stone work, so better to purchase just one and find out now than buy them all and find out later that the colour is not what we expected.

We also had a temporary electrical supply put in by Jebson's electrician so they can do the internal work and I can then use it when I start doing bits on the inside too.

Confidence is high that the building work should be complete within four weeks. Ahead of schedule!!

Scaffold going up to finish off the side extension

The new concrete for the new section of the kitchen.

The remainder of the lower section of vrick will be removed and the stone on the left stripped out

The view from the kitchen to the new concrete

Having to use the flash on the camera now as the roof is done on the front extension

This will be the third bedroom

And this will be the en-suite

More progress and starting on the rear extension

Now the builders have started on the smaller rear extension as our next door neighbour has some landscape gardeners in so the builders need to get onto his land before the gardeners begin on that section. They have knocked down the storage shed that was previously there and begun to knock the wall down that seperated the shed from the kitchen.

Where the storage shed used to be

This will become part of the kitchen

This will be built up to be the new bathroom

The view from the kitchen, you can see where the wall will be removed

The builders have also started to move the rest of the rubble from the gable end and fireplace in the living room so it's looking a lot bigger.

At the weekend we managed to clear out all the insulation from the loft to replace with brand new when the time comes. You can see bags of it above.

Roof timbers go on the front extension!

So with a mini crisis hopefully averted the joiners were moving on with the roof timbers on the front extension. The ceiling will be installed above the two wooden purlins to give the roof a bigger feel but the whole house is really taking shape and we can see how good it's going to be in a few weeks time.

Pictures below

Side of the house

Front view where the new roof timbers are

And here are the roof timbers from the inside

The ceiling with be pitched at the sides and flat between the two wooden purlins

The door cut out for the en-suite. The sloped ceiling should be a nice feature.

The supporting wall in the main bedroom that was built on the steel beam below.

This looks toward where the en-suite will be. The roof will be pitched in here also.

You can see where the window will be in the bedroom and the view we will get.

The bi-folds that have the problem lintel, but not for long!