Making progress

Well the floors are done - the guys did a good job. I've covered them all up with cardboard now so whilst they don't look beautiful anymore it's nice to have a level surface to walk on

House is looking good outside. The front is blooming and Sue has given the raised beds a coat of paint in the back and we have started planting it out. Sleepers are in place too. Stuart has almost finished the paving.

Carl has connected my wiring up to the new consumer unit now - he just has to come back to wire up the central heating boiler/Under floor heating

The boiler is fitted and working though thanks to Max & Quinn, 

...and Elliot has started hanging doors

So lots of decisions to make - trying to choose tiles at the moment

Okey dokey

Or should I say Oakey dokey! The oak floor isn't finished yet (hopefully tomorrow) but it's looking good. Great to be able to walk without having to balance on beams and bits of wood. The dry sand & cement that is covering the UFH pipes is proving to be a bit of a nuisance for them though and is slowing them up. As soon as they have finished a section of floor I am covering it up with a patchwork cardboard carpet to protect it.

The stairs are looking good now they have been cloaked in oak (cloaky dokey!)

Meanwhile Stuart has been doing some plumbing in the bathroom & ensuite

and he has been outside laying paving in the back garden

We are short of topsoil, but Trevor at the garden centre has a mountain of it that he wants rid of (it came off what is now the car park) so I have been loading it into crates and wheelbarrowing it to my van and gradually bringing the mountain back to fill our raised beds

Cotton House without scaffolding

...and we have got this far with the kitchen - we won't touch it again for quite a while - other priorities now (like clearing the ground floor so they can start flooring it next week!)

The Big Three

Actually they were a Merseybeat band from the 1960's who disbanded about the same time our house was being built, but in our case I mean - the scaffolding is down, we have started the kitchen, and the guys have started laying the oak flooring upstairs

Another thing we have done is chopped off the newel posts and banister rails on the staircase - the stairs is also going to be lined with oak and we will probably have glass up the sides. Wish I had chopped them of earlier - it would have made it a lot easier when I was carrying all those sheets of plasterboard upstairs!