Through the mud - Renovation Day 10

It was grey and damp and dreich almost all weekend. Which coincided in a mucky way with the excavations of the kitchen. Wayne and Chris had spent most of Thursday and Friday with the digger and dump truck in the kitchen, with the result that about three quarters of the kitchen was a metre lower and all the earth that had once been beneath our feet was mostly on the driveway.

I say most of the earth was on the drive way, because of course, there was a thin patina of mud all the way across the patio and around onto the drive. Such that every time someone, or a pet, walked into either of the external doors we were using, they tracked some mud into the lounge or our teeny new kitchen. Upshot: filth. And a never-ending tide of it too.

We snapped on Saturday and spent the day cleaning the house, dusting and hoovering and tidying to make it feel slightly more pleasant to live in. We managed to keep muddy pawprints off things for all of about 20 minutes until cats tracked dirt all over the tabletops. Ah well, it made us happier.

And Sunday saw us hosted at the Miele shop in Cambridge, where predictably Islay was entranced by the top of the range cookers. I may sell a lung.

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Boilers

We have a new boiler and a new water system. Woot. It is quiet.

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'...

Cables drop from the ceiling

Data, power and TV ready to be hooked up in the playroom

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