Saturday Update

The flat roof guys were back today and so I am hoping they will be finished. Inside the sub-floor insulation is laid on the first floor and in about a third of the ground floor. This needs to be finished so that the underfloor heating pipes can go down.

All getting very tight.







Here's a video compilation of the progress of the last couple of weeks.

August 23rd - first fixes

Today sees the completion of another two weeks of continuous work on the site. That is seven weeks so far.
Significant work has been made on the roofs (rooves?) but a couple of days heavy rain has prevented the completion of the flat roof which, in turn, has held up work on getting the slates on the main pitched roof areas. Three of the pitches drain on to the flat roof so it has to be finished before they start putting on the roof tiles.

The roof-lights are in the flat roof and that completes the building's fenestration.

A good portion of the electrical fist-fix is done and the heating and hot & cold water first fix is also done.

The heat pump location is by the back wall of the garage. The "Aquapump" is located in the garage. This requires a couple of buried insulated pipes bringing the hot and the cold water into the house. They has completed the work and filled in the trench before I got a chance to photograph it. 

This array of pipes, mostly for the underfloor heating, will be hidden under the flooring on the ground floor. The area in the photograph will be the coat cupboard near the staircase.

Today - Friday, August 21st promises to be dry and so fingers crossed that the flat roof guys get over and finish the job.

August 9th

Another five days of work on the site, that makes five since the resumption. Work continued of the roof(s) and, very key, the windows and front door were delivered and installed. This was completed by Thursday evening and so we set off for Westport on Friday morning - having checked that the workers were on the site that morning.

We won't be back in Ballyferrier until next Monday so we only can hope that work continues without us being there to chivvy them along. According to our understanding of the schedule, this week should see the first fix for the plumbing and more work on the roof.
Cheers

Fingers crossed

Frontage of the original house

New door in the wall of the extension, creating a new location for the "front door" 

Living room windows looking over Smerwick Harbour and Mount Brandon

The three "new" windows in the upstairs of the original structure. The old house had three windows of (more or less) this size but the were positioned about 60cm lower so you had to stoop to look out if standing. Moving the apertures through the roofline was the main cause of contention with the builder that caused close to a three-month delay.