Friday, March 2, 2012

From the ground up

It's suddenly getting hard to keep up with the changes.  I just miss a week of updating the blog and am overtaken by events.  So, here in brief is the news from last Saturday. 

The most visible change was that, under the blue tarpauline, the foundations for the garden room have been laid.


Access to the drains and the cistern has been provided for.


On the left is the corner will be where the laundry will be.


And here, against the far wall the staircase will come down from the kitchen to the garden (you can just make out garden ground level on the right) and the garden room.


And the new beam above the door of the garden room, which will be supporting the weight of house.


The only thing which is not looking too happy is Mum's Villosa lace-cap hydrandea, which had a narrow escape from a shovelful of rubble.  It's going to need some protective fencing until the leaves come out and it is less camouflaged...   

2 comments:

Rich Wood said...

Very exciting! Don't worry too much about the hydrangea, plants ill grow back. We have a contractor on site who just knocked over 5 hawthorn trees... To be fair though, those 18 wheelers are hard to reverse.

Zannie said...

Looking very exciting.....

I would think that you might need more than a pink ribbon to keep builders off the hydreangea, but if that's the only casualty, you will be doing well!