Latest update

For the rest of this week and remainder of the month of October the Builders are working on completing the roof!

The natural slates arrived and going to be being put up.

Yipeee!!!

Roll on November for when the roof will be finished and then in the second or third week in November the windows and doors being fitted. Let's hope there are no more delays!!!!

Some photo's of the inside - Upstairs Bedrooms

The Master Bedroom - is above the living room and in the dormer side of the house.

To the left is the dormer window which is East facing.

Below are Photo's 3 & 4. Photo 3 is of the the walk-in wardrobe and door to en-suite.

Photo 4 shows the velux window in the roof of the dormer to the west of the master bedroom.

To the left are Photo's 4 & 5 show the Nursery (Bedroom 4/office room)

Photo's 6&7 show Bedroom 2 with the south/west and west facing windows. This room also has an ensuite.

Photo's 8&9 showing Bedroom 3 - window facing east.

The last 4 photo's show the attic area above the Bedroom2,3,4 & Bathroom (at the 2

storey side of the house).

There are 4 velux windows in the attic and the room will be fully insulated to 'hatbitable' stan

dards even though this room is not right now going to be used as a 'room' but is to be fully kitted out for possible future conversion.

The attic area will also house the HRV unit at the gable walls in the very last photo. We are going to use the Vallox HRV unit which is to be installed in November.

Some photo's of the inside - Upstairs landing balcony hallway

Going upstairs to the landing & landing blacony.

the first photo here shows window on the stairs mid-way - this is facing the back garden and is west facing.

The second photo as you can see below shows the view as you are heading up the stairs to the landing area lighted by a velux window in the dormer side of the house.

As you turn to the left you can see the landing/balcony which brings you to the 2-storey part of the house. The 2

storey part of the house contains Bedroom 2, Bedrooom 3,

Bedroom4/Nursery/Office and main bathroom.

The view from the stairs to Bedroom 3 & 4 & bathroom

The view from the bathroom area to the Balcony

To the right the view looking at the corner window down to the dining area.

The final two pictures show the view from the dining area looking up to the balcony/landing.

Some photo's of the inside - Downstairs Living Room

These photos are of the living room.

This first photo shows the door from the living room (formal room on house plan) into the hallway.

The second photo here shows the wall of the living room that is on the hallway side.

The third photo shows the window to the right of the door of the living room.

The fourth photo here shows the full wall to the right of the doorway with the two windows that overlook the front

driveway.

The fifth photo shows the wall where the chimney & fireplace is to be located. We are going to put in an insert stove - fondis. Hopefully it will work out!!! We are finding suppliers pretty sticky at the moment on price etc etc!!

Budget is going up and up!!

The last photo shows the double doors and side windows of the living room that overlook the garden (rear/back of the property).

The patio area will be very large and will also be accessed from the long open plan kitchen/dining/living room.

Some photo's of the inside - Downstairs Open Plan Kitchen Dining Family room

From the front door - the hallway & stairs below and to the right upstairs to the

landing.

The kitchen

windows -

looking out to the front of the house.

The rest of this room is long open plan kitchen & dining & family room.

Next are the pictures of the long window next to the kitchen

where the dining area will be

And where it will be overlooked by the upstairs hallway balcony area.

Here you can see the south facing windows into the living area of this long room. Also the corner windows capture the westerly sunlight and there is also another window to the right which you cannot see that further captures the westerly light.

Stage 1 and Stage 2 Completed

Finally an update!! Nearly every weekend has been spent planning, sourcing & researching.

We are well underway and the past few months have been in Stage 1 and completing Stage 2.

We are up to roof level. All walls are fully completed, concrete floors completed, pipes for heating laid, pipes for utilities instered, concrete stairs input (to be fully fixed in Stage3), internal block walls upstairs and downstairs, attic ceiling completed and the attic velux windows all completed.

It's been a long haul from May!! We have had a few delays along the way and probably a few more to come. One we know of already are the windows, we are still chasing the company on what is going on there!!

And it looks like we won't be in for Christmas due to the windows being delayed. Other news is that Tanya is expecting a baby .... first week in January!!!! Hence the lack of updates and added urgency on the build ... but still building and weather interrupts, supplier interrupts have more of an affect on the build!!!

End of week 2

Well the first stage of putting up the Reward ICF system is on it's way. Over the coming weeks the concrete will be poured to bring the walls up to the first floor. Then end of Stage 1 - should be completed by mid-late June.

Stage 2 looks like it will complete August timeframe as this will incorporate installing the concrete floors (July) , putting up the next floor ICF system, pouring the concrete in these walls by end of July. Following on from this will be laying all the floors and ensuring all the pipes are installed for the heating/plumping etc on both floors. All should be completed by August.

As you can see from the pictures not all the windows are cut out as yet. Can't wait for this floor to be completed.

And the next stage!!

Then in August we can get the windows measured up!!!! Yipee!!!

End of week 1

Day 2

Yipeeeee, its finaly Started!

The builders arrived on site arrived yesterday morning and cleared the site, dug the foundation and poured concrete.

















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