Home views Page 3. (The roof, the wall and the kitchen)

The joy of an unfitted kitchen.	After fitting. (Not quite like it was in the brochure, but much better for us.)
The joy of a new roof: four days of fast work with hammers and scaffolding.	Nice new roof to keep the rain out. Surprisingly, it's cheaper to import slate from Spain than from Wales.

While the scaffolding was up Becka photographed her hoard of building materials. Note the stacks of used slate in front of the car.

During the excavation of the basement, the brick wall became seriously undermined (the excavation to the basement is in the bottom right hand corner, beneath the new lead-free water pipe). It had been laid directly onto soil.

We filled the space underneath it in stages with hand-mixed concrete and probably used more than the mass of the wall. I still say: Why didn't we just pull down the wall?

Page 4 (See-through windows).

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22/3/00 ... Julian Todd.