Building the Extension: Week 5

9 August: External Walls Completed


Walls finished!	Porch begun

Internal wall in progress	Rear window complete

View from above	View from above

10 August: The Roof Begins


The roof timbers appear	Don't they look splendid?

Porch walls complete	Brickwork above the garage completed

Nice woodwork.	Ben's room is a mess and he's not even in the country.

	View from the garden

11 August: The Roof Structure in Place


Starting to look like a house

Nice lines.	It's all done with minimal holes in the existing roof

Holes ready for the roof lights	Uh-oh - looks like rain...

12 August: The Start of the Roof Covering

Today would not be a good day to rain. So we had rather spectacular thunderstorms and flash flooding. Numerous holes in the old roof felt let in buckets of water. Drat.
Despite this the roofers worked all day, and made considerable progress.


More than half felted

Looking up from below	It's looking bigger

	It's sunny now, but you should have seen it earlier.

Nice vaulting.

13 August: Roof felting is completed


It's now dry inside again

14 August: Floorboards down


It's now dry inside again

The sun shines again	View from the house opposite

15 August: Tidying up the loft

We amused ourselves on Sunday by taking down the old roofing felt - a very messy job.


Before (from the extension)	After

After (from the loft)	View from above

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