The great (wood) wall of Walnut Tree House - Renovation Day 15

More faces on site (I've been told, I wasn't at home).  Wayne stood down, but new grounds people on site.  And more pertinently a pair of carpenters.

The carpenters spent their day erecting a large wall that runs through the lounge, hall and playroom.  They removed the entirety of the playroom door and surround, and walled off a whole set of shelves.  From the inside it's an impressively monolithic construction. And they took care to route light switches so that we can control the lounge and playroom lights, albeit at about 6 feet off the floor so that Keir has no agency at all.

All so that they can keep digging lumps out of the kitchen, and knock down walls and so on without too much impact on the rest of the house.  

And with the wall in place the demolition continues.  Three full grabber lorries of dirt have gone from the driveway, and there's at least two more still to go.  The pantry is mostly gone, although the floor remains.  And they've started to dig the space for the underpinning pads, so now a hole well over a metre deep heads underneath the corners of the kitchen, leaving the media room and corner of the study on a precarious overhang.

Mark's also given us a week's notice to clear the under-eaves storage, about which I'm a little concerned given how much stuff there is, but is presumably evidence of the next phase of work to come.  I'm guessing they'll be stripping back or demolishing the roof.  

And whilst all this goes on, things are mostly fine.  Everything is very warm, and the radiators and heating appear to be either ON or OFF with little in between.  But it's cosy and the kids are happy.  We're getting closer to the day when stuff starts to be built and added to rather than removed.  I'm not sure which side of Christmas that will be.