granny Flat Days 7 and 8

The guys worked a half day on Saturday so I'm including Saturday's work with today's. The thing is coming out of the ground. Scary. No major hitches as yet, except the for the debate about PVC v timber framed windows and doors.

Friday 19th Day 6

Walls are now going up and a patio area is being prepared. You can't see it because it is hidden under the rest of the hedge which is now down.

Thursday

Today has seen the weather deteriorate but the rain never really came to much. However the guys have protected the bricks in the event that it gets wet during the night. From left to right we have Ian, Andy, Craig, Chris and Stewart. Stewart is responsible for getting the walls up. He is the brickie in other words.

Wednesday, Day 4

This is pretty much the state of things at close of play on Wednesday. The crew are driving ahead with the clearing of the ground for the new build. Bye bye shrubs and borders.

Day 3

This is where we got to on Tuesday. I hope to post today's work before today is out and then keep up to date with the work. That's the plan anyway. The people standing chatting are from left to right, Stewart, a newly qualified architect from Rob's firm, Arthur the builder, and Rob Lukas our architect.

Granny Flat Day 2

Monday, the back wall of the garage came down and half the hedge disappeared in order to allow the back wall of the house to be built. Our beloved apple tree also had to come down. So far 2 skips have been filled. The wall coming beyond the garage is an outhouse of our neighbour's.

Granny Flat Story Day 1

Ok, we started the garage extension on Saturday 13th. This is what happened: the outhouses at the back of the garage came down.

And the men dug a trench inside the garage for the foundation of the new wall between the house and the garage.