Plumbing, boiler and hot water cylinder installed.

The plumbing has been extended to the house extension area. Also, as we are having under floor heating in the new family room - a new A rated energy efficient boiler is being installed.

The new boiler coupled with a pressurised hot water cylinder should put us in good stead for the future. The pressurised water cylinder means that two enormous tanks of water in the loft can be removed. This can have small house insurance savings but having already had minor water damage from these tanks, we will be glad to see them go.

We are saying goodbye to the old boiler, hot water tank and removing the two large cold water tanks in the loft.

The central heating system was power flushed to remove the residue in the central heating system. This photo (rather uninteresting) shows the power flush equipment which is connected to the radiators inside the house.

To be honest, I'm not even sure why I photographed this. 

Roof Tiled, Velux Windows Fitted and Watertight

The house extension's roof is now tiled and the scaffolding has been taken down. The Velux windows are fitted to provide sky lights for the kitchen and dining room areas inside.

The roof is insulated and the house extension is watertight which means the focus is now on getting the interior ready.

This photo shows the house extension at the rear of the property. It's starting to take shape now. The next steps are floors, ceilings, electrics, plumbing and plastering. How much will be done by the end of this week?

The New Kitchen is delivered

The new kitchen is delivered, unloaded and stored out of the way ready for fitting.

I'm not sure how the driver managed to get the delivery lorry out of this.

The kitchen units and fittings are unloaded.

Knocking through the internal walls

Now the roof is up and water tight, the next stage of the build project is to knock through.This video shows how the builders get through the internal wall between the kitchen and dining room.

This part of the house extension project was not as messy as I expected and the builders did a superb job of minimising the amount of brick dust around the house.

The builders carefully removed the rear wall of the property and the steel beams now support the rear of the property.

This photo shows the rear of the property from the inside. The old exterior wall is knocked through and the room now is opened up into the extended area.

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.