House Rendering

Towards the end of last week lots of progress seemed to be being made on the house.  It has got its first coat of render on the rebuilt extension and the kitchen floor had got well on the way to being levelled up.  The kitchen units were on order and the en suite bathroom whilst not finished was useable - the reason for the odd waste pipe and drainpipe in the photograph.

These things cannot last can they?  Monday morning arrived and we discovered a major problem with the main bathroom wall.  It was not only built of some strange, large, and we now know heavy, breeze blocks but was only resting on floorboards rather than the joists, with no supporting wall beneath it.

The result is that we have had to have the wall completely removed and a stud wall put up to replace it.  A nightmare to say the least.

As a distraction from all the problems and to cheer myself up I took some photos of the pansies in the garden I had planted in an old chimney pot taken off the roof of the house.

Sometimes life seems just to be too much and you need something to keep you smiling.

It was also DH's 60th birthday this week and he was in no mood for celebrating.  At least the builders and I got to enjoy the cake I bought!!