Progress will begin again soon!

The windows went in, but not all the blinds. The doors went in, but not the garage doors. The front door went in but they broke the glass panel. Then they went.
Today met the electrician and the internal builder plasterer.
The latter starts next week and he has a mammoth job. Ceilings throughout; doubling of the walls with insulation throughout; all the internal walls and then plastering the lot. This has to be dovetailed with the electrician so he can run all his conduit in, through, up, down and round.
All beyond my ken.
Oh, and the architect brought round a raft of bills. Eek.

The windows are in.

Getting round the hiccups that they had created, they have put in all the windows now. The ones in the new part have been no problem but the sub-lintels containing the roller blinds were not the correct type so they have had to order others.

I thought it might be the time to have bit of a look inside, so here are some pictures of the main areas. The first one is the living room. I've had to use a panorama shot to get it all in. You can see that the windows are all waiting for their roller blinds.

The next one is of the kitchen and dining room. This across the hall from the lounge and I will be continuing round the house in an anti-clockwise direction. The french doors lead out onto the barbecue balcony.

There will be an internal door from the kitchen into my lair which is shown below. The door on the right leads out onto the bedroom balcony.

The next picture is of our bedroom. It looks enormous, but this end on the left will be a walk-in wardrobe area (or dressing room as they are apparently called now). It is the far end that will be our bedroom. Obviously the french windows open out onto the bedroom balcony. This goes around both external walls of the bedroom.

Finally, across the corridor from our bedroom is Brennie's lair into which we have added a north(ish) facing window (the left-hand one) because apparently photographers need that.

Now it's the windows

They were there at five to eight to start on the windows. They of course stopped for lunch (this is France after all) but were there through until 5.30. They managed to most of the upstairs windows and also the door from my lair out onto the bedroom balcony. If you zoom in (double click on the photo) you can see how much insulation is going to put inside the walls by looking at the surround to the door. The lintels above the windows are hollow to take the roller blinds. These will also add to insulation. For those of you wondering about insulation, here we have to take note of summer temperatures in the high thirties. We need to stop the heat getting in as well as stopping the coolth in winter.

Brennie went out onto the balcony to take a picture of me inside my lair door. Apparently one gets quite a lot of reflection from double glazing!

Actually, she took the picture deliberately but I'm hoping you don't get this far down the blog.