House Extension Roof is Built

The house extension roof frame is in built. The extension is starting to come together now with significant changes happening at a faster rate.

Once the roof is up and water tight over the extension, knocking through the existing walls can be done.(exterior and between the kitchen and dining room).

The three areas mark out where the skylights are going to be located.

Steel beams support the rear of the property

At the end of last week we saw the two longest steel beams taking the load of the rear of the property.

This was the tricky part because the builders had to remove the ceiling and fit the steel beams with as little disruption to the two rooms above.

Below we see how the rooms above were cleared and prepared for the steel beams to be inserted.

The kitchen is gone

Today we said goodbye to the old kitchen.

From this..

...to this...

A sale on Gumtree and an hour of sweating to help load up 'a man with a van' and the kitchen is now gone.

Scaffolding up, steel beams delivered and prepared.

On Friday last week, the scaffolding was put up around the house extension area in order to put the main load bearing steel beams in and subsequently build the roof.

The photos below show the steel beams and how they were raised by a crane up to the scaffolding to prepare them for fitting.

Bricking up progress in the heat wave

The hottest week of the year so far and certainly the hottest spell of weather for quite some time.

The brick layers are finding the heat challenging, however they are making good progress and hope to be complete and ready to knock through soon.

The steel beams are now ordered. these steel beams will provide support to the house between the dining room and kitchen and across the rear of the property to the house extension.

Breezeblocks and brick work continues

With the end of the week rapidly approaching, the brickwork has resumed today and the house extension is starting to take shape.

Brick and Breezeblock deliveries

Building work is due to re-commence on Wednesday.

A few brick deliveries and an empty skip await the building team for a Wednesday start.