They're back!

After the mother and father of all thunderstorms last night, this morning it tipped down, but they're back.
They've started on the the exterior wall of the kitchen and they've made the second window in Bren's lair.
The roof has been taken back so that they can remove the brickwork above the kitchen and bedroom in order to put in reinforced concrete beams. The ghostly figure of Bren is standing in our bedroom; all the white bit above her will go as will the one on the left going into the kitchen to be replaced by the beams.

All quiet on the western front...

No-one there Thursday, no-one there Friday, no-one there today. August has come early.

Some building but more demolition too...

They have now knocked through from the original house into what will be our bedroom. Bren is standing on the balcony outside what will be the sliding doors that will lead from the bedroom. That bit of balcony will be covered by the new roof that will come out as far as the concrete pillar that can be seen on the second photo, below.

The view from outside shows the pillar just left of centre, the gap behind being the one that Bren is standing in, in the picture above. (Some of you may wish to rearrange the previous sentence into a representation of good English.)
The roof will be the same pitch as the original and both the new and the old will all be done in slate, so the join will be less obvious.

The roof-plates go on

The crane lifts another shot of concrete into position for the roof-plates

It's all getting a bit scary...

The whole thing is causing a few collywobbles. All the upstairs windows are now out. This means the new sills can be formed once the interior insulation has been done. It has been a bit cooler so they have been able to do some more blockwork.

They have also done more demolition. The roof is now held up by jacks. This can particularly be seen in what was the kitchen corner of the house where the corner no longer exists, as you can see below. The kitchen will extend out to the little concrete foundations yopu can see on the right-hand side.