Week 12 - nearly enclosed

Last Friday was the first day where the rain impacted our build. The brickies were due to finish that day but a drizzly morning saw them spending their day elsewhere. Luckily for us they came back on Saturday and finished everything off! 

The rain cleared on Friday afternoon and that was obviously enough for the renderers to get cracking. The front facade is now completely rendered and it looks amazing!  It looked a bit green while it was drying but it's now quite a lot lighter than it appears in this photo. We can't wait to see it painted. (Dark on the bottom and light on the top).

The un-rendered section in the photo above is where the feature stacker stone will be.

The plasterers also made a start on smoothing all of the joins in the lower level plaster on Friday, and we were lucky to receive confirmation that one of the "services voids" which took up a bit of space in our WIR wasn't needed and has now been removed. It wasn't huge, but removing it will make a massive difference to the wardrobe layout options available to us. After considering Ikea PAX wardrobes for ages, we have now also engaged another company to quote on this job and will weigh up the options when we see the price.

Looking towards kitchen. Front door down the corridor on the left. 
Fridge space in the centre. Walk in pantry in the corner. 
Kitchen window splashback on the right.

On the weekend we went to the Home Show, but nothing new really jumped out and said "buy me".  On the way home, past the block of course, we noticed that the cladding and some other timber had been delivered. Once the cladding is done we are officially at the enclosed stage and will receive an invoice for the biggest of our progress payments.

Cladding waiting to be installed.

Yesterday it drizzled on and off all day so we weren't expecting any work to be done outside. I didn't get a chance to go around for a look and figured it would be pretty muddy anyway. Andy called past on his way home and noticed that they had started on the timber framework for the eaves so the rain obviously didn't bother them. 

They've made a start on the eave timbers.

One section of eave board up on the right hand side of the upper level.

We had more rain overnight. Hopefully it hasn't damaged any of the plaster, especially where the roof tiles on the garage are still dislodged because of the scaffolding. 

We've got a progress meeting with our site supervisor on Thursday morning. We have some requests from our decking contractor that we need to discuss with him but we also hope to get an update on the next steps. He's a nice guy and has been very helpful and accommodating so far. 

I think that's well and truly enough from me for now. Until next time...... :-)