December 2007

The first thing in December to get done was to apply bitument sealant to the concrete block floor to stop water ingress from below and then cover this with celotex insulation.














Then came the 8th of December!
A very important day, remember about 8 weeks ago, I had placed the orders for the doors well today they were installed. They fitted like a dream (which consideering my history was a major surprise) and worked brilliantly opening up the lounge and bringing in a lot of light!.

The upstands of celoxtex are installed around the edge of the rooms (to ensure a cold spot is avoided between floor and wall) and a damp proof membrane goes down. This is then followed by the concrete floor to the lounge side of the extension.





This is then followed by the same process to the new kitchen side of the extension.

The old kitchen door is blocked up as this space in the hallway will now become a downstairs cloakroom (the foul sewer pipe that was in the kitchen has been extended into this space down and filled in).

The upstairs has now been framed out ready for the new walls, you can see some of the first fix of the electrics has also gone in now, although we are still working on temporary lighting and no other electrics or heating!






Some more windows are installed upstairs!








Unfortunately, the contracted roofers decided not to start and despite going through about seven other roofers, it was not possible to get any of the roof constructed before Christmas, so afraid it's Christmas in the Garden Office for me!


A temporary roof is put onto the building to try and keep it water tight whilst the builders are on holiday over the Christmas period.


Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!


All in all December turned out to be a little disappointing. The plan was to be in the house again (although not in comfort) before Christmas. So electrics and heating engineers had been arranged and choices made on some of the final fittings, all to no avail.