Category: extension (Page 4 of 4)

As the walls go up, the thing that is most striking is the height of the rooms inside. This makes this space feel very open.

Despite the showery weather we are making good progress on the blockwork for the extension.

The large brown pipe protruding from the wall is the air intake for the log burning stove that will be installed in the lounge.

You can see part of the dry stone wall in the courtyard garden in the foreground.

There is a large square opening between the lounge and the kitchen. A large oak truss will sit on top of this wall supporting the roof.

Another 70 sqm of reclaimed stone arrived today. This is the 2nd load of three. Tomorrow, it will need to be coursed out.

When this stone has been coursed out, it will be sorted into the same piles that you can see in the background.

There are another 3-4 courses of blocks to go before we reach roof height. The reclaimed stone for the exterior skin arrived this evening – well the first batch anyway. The exterior wall is going to be a lot slower than the blockwork.

At this rate, we will have a large proportion of the blockwork completed before the end of the week.

We can’t go any further with the internal wall in the kitchen as the interior wall is made up of re-used stone that we have reclaimed during the demolition. The bi-folding doors are on order.

70 square metres of reclaimed stone. This is the first of three loads. It will be used for the exterior wall on the extension.

These are one tonne bags that have more than a tonne in them. No prizes for guessing what happens!

You can see the land drain in the bottom of the retaining wall as well as the damp proof course on the side of the extension. The manhole to camera right houses one of the three manifolds for the ground loops for the underfloor heating.

We are three days in and the blockwork is around shoulder height. It has already got to a point where we can only walk around the extension by using the door openings.

There is a damp proof course (the black plastic) around this part of the building as the ground level outside is above the floor level inside the extension.

We have started on the blockwork for the extension today. The reclaimed stone for the external walls arrives midweek, until then we will continue work on the blockwork.

We have spent most of the day getting all of the walls in the new extension up to the same level. This means using some bricks on some of the walls. Once we have all the walls to the same level, it is much quicker to then build the rest of the blockwork.