Stonework finished - last windows in

Its taken a bit longer but all in good time, the stonework has been completed at the garage, front door and around the sunroom.
Garage

Sunroom


Front Door.


Last windows in now aswell. Sunroom, front door and front window and the stain glass window (designed by myself.)

Designed window.


So finally the house is sealed up, next tasks were to get the scaffolding down. done by Dec 1st. New year tasks now to get the digger in for all the drains and heating pipes to garage, get a condensed oil boiler and the key ingredient - ELECTRICITY, sorted, so we can warm up the house and get going on the next steps.

Electrician back first, then plumber, tiler to be sorted. might try some painting over the xmas holidays. furniture buying.

INTERIORS progress.
Stairs - awaiting final drawings and prices. Kitchen booked for end Jan - start Feb. My bed bought ( 1st one a bit too long so new one sorted now). Dining table and chairs ordered. Tiles picked for downstairs(hall, sunroom, kitchen and utility). Over xmas wooden floors for sitting and tv rooms to be sorted, with the stairs carpet, and onto landing. Plenty of furniture spotted, so awaiting the lotto numbers to be able to pay for it all :o)))

Latest House photo

Steel & Stone week - up to Nov 2nd & Nov 9th

Stonework around sunroom going well, awaiting sills which finally will be delivered on 2nd Nov - and off up again they can go after that.

Steel for over windows arrived (minus 2 lintels) so trying to locate them now. Garage work can continue so that should be finished by early next week. Finished on Nov 3rd. Scaffolding still up in front of it so photo to arrive later!

1 beam over front door needs to be inserted into the side walls so core-drilling dude required for that. and get him to core out vents in kitchen and utility while he's there! Core work done on 2nd Nov, steel through front door holes on the following Tues. 6 men to do that. Now stone continuing up the wall. Sunroom sills put in just this week, and stone going up around them. Still locating the 2 final steel lintels (special screw fixing required to attach it to the corner of wall (nothing to support it from ground up - all fun)

Slabber nearly finished inside - besides the 2 open window areas and the sunroom. Some small bits to be done still this week Nov9th, hard to get him to just finish it off! Hope to get plasterer back to start skimming next Monday 12th Nov.

Slabber and stonemason started - to Oct 24th

Last week the slabbing started with all the ceilings on the ground floor completed and now the walls have started. Upstairs all the stud walls got 1 sided slabs, so then i had the job of packing in the rockwool over the weekend. This week is completing the other side of stud walls and onto the attic. Rooms are now feeling like real rooms as you can't see from room to room anymore. Smaller in some ways but now i know the layouts etc.

Stonemason started yesterday 23rd Oct. Here is a photo of their work so far.
Garage front gable ->


Steel on order to be put in over all window and door openings to support the stone over that! Window sills on order (was going to precast and make them but that effort will take too long and outcome is unknown). so back to the shop made. hopefully they'll arrive by early next week and we'll rock on with getting stone up and windows in. Then finally the house will be sealed up!

Slabber has then to return to do the sunroom and around the windows/front door that are not in yet.

Heating and electricity are the next jobs and then onto tiling aswell.

up to Oct 15th

Finally 2 buckets of colour render arrived on on 10th October so plasterer could do the back wall of house, then up on the scaffolding again to paint the sills.

Inside the electricians got all 1st fix done by Friday evening.

Insulating guys came on Sat morning, did about a 1/4 of the attic with kingspan, and didn't come back til today Monday. pressure on them now as the slabbing team arrived to meet the delivery of plasterboards so they are going to start on ground floor today and once insulation in roof and between joists they'll start upstairs.

Stonemason due on later this week, so steel order in for over the windows/doors of sunroom and front door and garage.

busy week, no new pictures.

Sunroom roof on.

With the gable wall plastered by the sunroom, it finally got roofed.
While the scaffolding is up, we cleaned the windows upstairs on all sides of the house and painted the window sills black.
Taking great shape now.

Photo of latest view of front of house ->


Short some colour render so back of house has been delayed and hopefully by Oct 9th it will get finished off.
Some scaffolding to come down this weekend and the rest next weekend once we paint the sills at back of the house.

Stonemason fun.. cancelled original guy, (due to his lack of interest and actually not turning up) and have found another group to come within 2 weeks. Starting 16th Oct. so within 2 weeks they'll hopefully be completed. then cast window sills and get windows in. House then sealed up!

INSIDE ->
Electric points marked so that is ready to go. That was a fun evening. 2 and half hours walking round decided ( even though i had it all on plans already) where switches and sockets should go. Electrician had some good thoughts on different lighting options and some of my plans changed.
He's to be onsite and finished by 20th Oct.
Lining up some help to Kingspan the attic roof, before its slabbed & skimmed. This work is being lined up for week after 20th Oct.

Kitchen plan finalised with final drawing to come next week. Still no tiles picked for floor. or whether the skirting boards and architraves will be painted or wood. Plenty of things to plan out yet :o)

But hopefully by end of October, outside and inside are plastered and fully sealed.. Then its 2nd fixing fun for November. Get the heating system up and running and warm up the house.. I'll nearly be able to sleep in it then!

Plastering well on its way

Slow few weeks since last report.
Sept 3-7 - post all-ireland week nothing was happening.
The plasterers workmen arrived on site and started.
First coat on all walls included a mesh to hold it all together.
2nd coat is a primer to prepare for the render.
Final coat is the 2.0mm coloured render.

Sept 27th, 2 weeks late starting plastering and we are short 1 bucket of render to finish off the back of the house. so fingers crossed by Oct 6th we'll be removing the scaffolding.

Photo of front of house ->


colour is a bit stronger than i'd expected but i'm told its still drying off :o) fingers crossed it dries off nicely to a buttermilk colour to match the chimneys!

Internal works update.
Shower trays in, pipe work started. Window boards in, stud walls set into position. Electrician on the way soon.

Garage -> got the first coat of paint on that 2 weeks ago. haven't returned to it since. Painted window sill black to see what that would look like. will do house sills black now and the plinth around by the footpaths once they are finished off. (a long way off yet).
Garage door arrived today too. Black roller door. looks great.
Solar panel frames also arrived today and are being installed.

Next jobs.. stonemason to get house sections done, then window sills can be precast and poured, then its windows and front door done and the house is finally sealed up.
hope all this happens in next 2 weeks so by end of Oct, the inside slabbing will be well on its way!

Windows are in

As per the schedule - which i never published.. the windows appeared this week. Sunroom, front door and stain glass not going in for a month or so. Stonework and window sills to go in first to the sunroom.
Front door traffic too busy for that door to go in so we'll get the outside done and then the offical door opening will commence after that!

Photo of the house with windows (seal on the windows which we'll leave for a few weeks too, til plastering is finished)


Plasterer still on schedule for next week to start, so God please sort out the weather and keep it dry for the week :o)).
Plumber to core wall for water pipes etc before then, and start inside work. Electrician appearing in next 2-3 weeks, so i've a bit of time to get kitchen layout and which way doors will open sorted!