House Improvements #28. Foundations, heating cables, windows and doors.

Around the beginning of October, a few men and a digger turned up and proceeded to remove part of the front of the house. Before they arrived, it looked like this.

 

And after a day, there was a small bit of the house and a large chunk of the garden missing!

I must say that, even though I prefer to do things myself, it is quite fun to come home each day and see that other people have been there and that the job has progressed. The new foundation walls went up quite quickly, but due to the contractor using his head instead of the drawings and our late decision to have heating cables in the external steps and entrance finishing the job took a bit longer than planned.

But here it is, foundations complete. The delays meant that the next part of the construction will not start until the week after new year. That's no real problem, we're not in that much of a rush and the window supplier has agreed to hold the windows until the are needed early in February. Good news, the barns already full without having to find space for 8 windows and 2 balcony doors!