Work's been going on the best part of a month. I think it feels like it might have been longer, and that every morning has been grey and damp and cold and muddy. But maybe that's just the winter blues talking.
Week 4 saw the corner properly turned, and whilst demolition continues, stuff is also being created. The underpinning of the kitchen walls proceeds in sections, and now about 5 large concrete blocks have been cast at various points around the wall.
The team also managed to excavate the footings for the newly enlarged porch, digging a trench probably a metre deep in a short space of time. They managed to pierce the water supply heading into the house, leading to some rather panicked rushing around trying to find the stopcock. I largely ignored the panic, figuring I'd only need to start worrying when half the garden slumped down the hill. Fortunately it was resolved long before that point, but I did get to witness the trench mostly filled with muddy water spraying from the pierced main.
Mark set us the task of clearing the under-eaves storage over the weekend. It was a lot of work, but we managed it, and also got rid of quite a lot of stuff in the process. I made a couple of tip trips, and we've got a huge pile of stuff for Islay to deposit at charity shops in a manner akin to the escapees in the Great Escape spreading dirt around the exercise yard.
Once we'd cleared the under-eaves, the boys took great delight at lifting up some of the small panels at either end to look down upon the excavated and ceiling-less kitchen. They survived.
With all the clearing, no time for Christmas decorations, but Ula decided to get creative on the hoarding, so the festive spirit is starting to descend.
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