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.

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.

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.