More porch

Progress

Now that the chimney has narrowed, progress has speeded up!

Porch

Well we've finally had a few days of average weather which means we've seen quite a bit of progress from the builders. The chimney is slowly but surely getting higher and they're out of the ground with the porch!

Water water everywhere...

Another day, another leak... this time it's the front door. The porch meant that the front door had a roof over it and so it never actually got wet in the rain. We didn't know how bad the door was until it rained...

Slowly but surely

I accept there always needs to be a bit of mess and destruction in this sort of project before things get better, but why does new mess always come before the last job has finished? Rather than finishing the chimney brickwork, the builders decided to take down the porch and start taking the render off the front of the house... There has been some small progress made on the chimney now but it would have been nice to have that finished first...

Electrics

Well it's been a month since any progress has really been made... Christmas and the weather have been mainly to blame, but the good news is that we have working electrics throughout the house now! The walk-in-wardrobe is now painted and carpeted which is serving as great storage room. The bathroom has had a single coat of white paint, but until we know what we're doing in there we'll leave it at that for now...