Should have read "can't see" not "can see". Wishful thinking

Half plastered...

...almost.
Most of the downstairs is finished although, rather disappointingly, one wall that needs to be done before the staircase maker can measure is not done.
The slabbing out of upstairs is finished and the roof is probably less than a day's work away from being complete.
Here is a couple of views taken from the living room and looking into the (remodelled) first floor of the original house. This will be the kitchen/dining area. Can't see us cooking Xmas dinner here this year.

The gap on the left is where the stairs will rise. The kitchen units will be on the back wall and on the left, just beyond the stub of a wall and running up to where there are wooden planks leaning on the wall

The window on the right, nearest the viewer, is roughly where we will put the table on we get it from storage. The whole space has a rather odd geometry and will probably take while to get used to.

Getting plastered

stairwell

More steps forward, the work of plastering and such like began on Wednesday (October 9). By the end of the week most of downstairs masonry/block walls were covered in the base coat and the plasterboard ceilings had been skimmed. Oddly the only area of blockwork not given its base coat is where the stairway rises.

This needs to get done so that the chap making the staircase can come along and measure in advance of scheduling its manufacture.

Upstairs just about all the walls have been "slabbed", just one to go but it is proving very fiddly. The unfinished section is part of the original structure and includes the part of the roof we broke into in order to resite the windows.

Below is a photo of the area at an earlier stage of the build/rebuild. It runs out that all the old walls lean in by about 50mm and so the plasterboard has to be set so as to correct this. This requires a lot of the adhesive/bonding material to pack the gap and is proving time-consuming.  They need to get finished so the plasterers can move upstairs.

wonky wall

We were told the plastering will take until October 25th, but at the rate they are working it might be sooner. If only the slabbers don't hold them up.

The roof still not finished and there is no excuse the builder can come up with - the last piece was delivered last Saturday and he has chosen not to progress the work.

Hopefully, the progress next week will be a bit more photogenic.