Week 42, Day 5:

• Today’s automated WordPress posting didn’t work because the Broadband link was down at 16:00 through being moved over to VDSL / FTTC
• Various significant milestones today:
  • It’s exactly 10 months since building work started, meaning today was the original forecast completion date; it’s currently expected to take about another month to make the house habitable and a bit longer than that before the landscaping and decorating is complete
  • The plasterers completed the last room, marking the end of their continuous 11 weeks of work
    • Mostly a two-person team assisted by one or two others on occasions, so something like 25 weeks of effort
    • A really top-quality job including some difficult areas – especially the inside of the curved roof (which looks amazing, even inside the storage cupboards)
    • I’d highly recommend GC Interfinish to anyone wanting quality plastering in the East Midlands
  • All the scaffolding on the south side got dismantled ready for the installation of the solar shading next week, meaning that today’s time-lapse photo looks a lot different from yesterday’s
  • Thanks to some better weather, the majority of the zinc got installed on the north roof, with just a few sections left to complete – and then the fascias, down-pipes etc.
  • The kitchen worktops arrived and the sink worktop and splash-back is finished but there was a mishap fine-tuning the cut-out for the flush-fitting induction hob and the worktop for the island will have to be re-made
    • I think the mid-grey colour (Silestone Cemento) looks a bit odd against the bare plaster, the blue protective film over the gloss-finish cabinet fronts and the cardboard protecting the polished concrete floor but it should look better when everything is finished

Week 42, Day 5

Zinc roofing mostly complete

Worktop and splash-back for kitchen sink units

View from the south-east

View from the south-west