Close of play..Monday. Not bad for a couple of guys. Kitchen starting to be cleared out, walls removed.
Close of play..Tuesday. All the joists up, keeping the sink going a while longer. The old arch was flattened at the top..they got it wrong and so the new arch in the old place will be a proper arch shape. New arch starting to go in to form the corridor to the downstairs WC and utility....too many doors opening off from the downstairs hall. The new arch will be slightly narrower and shorter otherwise it will look too much like the side of a railway tunnel!
The damp patch on the floor is where one of the guys sawed through a central heating pipe
When they started investigating where the new arch is going, we were all rather bemused as to why there is a double skin with an empty void. I'm thinking that the RH side forms a very convenient alcove to put my gun cabinet.
Not only that, further on up above is a hefty steel lintel and a third skin on top of it.
Meanwhile Yours Truly has been taking apart the downstairs windows to get the measurements for the sashes and rather intrigued to find the back of this stone mullion machined by the look of things to form the correct angle to take the window frames.
Have to confess it's rather good having men in although the urge to pick up a hammer is irresistible at times. Of course i have to from time to time to work out how the house has been put together so I can work out the best way for pipes the-routing-thereof.
One downside of this project, and I don't know if Mike had the same problem, but waking up at, say, 3am for a trip to the loo, you only have to have a momentary house thought and, Bang !!!, that's that...you might as well get up. Notepads by the side of the bed don't really help.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.