Going, going, gone! The back wall, that is.
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Not a lot happened over Christmas and New year while we waited for the builder, Patrick, to arrive to remove the pillar between the kitchen extention and the middle room. We initially decided to not remove the pillar but after great thought, it seemed to be the best thing - it would create more light into the dark middle room and hopefully it would make the kitchen easier to fit out. And at a cost of around £2k it was a large chunk of the budget.
This is the view across the room, into the kitchen from a couple of months back. You can see how dark the middle room is.
This one makes the room look bigger than it will be as we have removed the bathroom wall - it currently has an open plan loo....
The RSJ's in the garden - our only snow of the winter so far. Very exciting day when it all got going. but then, I am easily pleased......
The back wall of the house is a thick rubble wall while the kitchen extension was only build a couple of decades ago so of normal construction. But I dont think any of us realised how large the stones were in that rubble wall.
Getting the RSJ's into position - I wouldnt have thought of doing that and then once all the props were in, I wouldnt have been able to bring in the steels. Good job we had an expert!
This shows some of the rocks taken out of the back wall in the bedroom, above the middle room.
The view into the kitchen!There had been a pillar to the right of the wall being removed on which the RSJ would sit but once exposed, Patrick was not happy with it. So he removed it all and build a new pillar. The unexpected advantage of doing this, is that now the new wall will be level with the rest of the kitchen wall, making it much easier to arrange kitchen units.
This is the new pillar - much better!
Patrick and the OH removing the current wooden beam.
The new steels are in place and the middle room joists are refixed with steel hangers.
Then its my turn to get busy. To avoid too much mess, I took out the bricks and stones individually and was able to clean off the lime mortar to leave a rather large pile of perfectly useable bricks.
So this is how it looked on Saturday by the time we packed up.
What a difference! we are thrilled. And we have now decided to have a U shaped kitchen with a breakfast bar where the rest of the wall is. Thats the next project for me - plan the kitchen units and get prices from Wickes, Howdens and Ikea. Hopefully before the sales run out next week. Even if it means storing them in the garage till we need them, if we can get a good price, it will be worth it.
And does anyone need any large cotswold stones?? we have a few.
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