The problem has been that showing plastered walls is not terribly interesting! All the upstairs is now plastered out. The plasterer uses a sort of airgun which projects the plaster onto the wall. He then follows up with flattening and then finish-trowelling. The results are fantastic.
This is our bedroom looking out onto our bedroom terrace.
You can see a bit of the wiring from the bedroom picture but the picture on the left shows more clearly how all the wires are run in conduit. The picture is of the kitchen and if you enlarge it by clicking on the picture you can see all the wires running across the hall from the lounge. They all go back to the new metre and fuse box in the garage below.
Outside they have been doing the cladding. This is the ceiling of the bedroom terrace but you can also see how they have gone along behind the guttering. This has all been replaced in zinc.
The cladding is in larch. It is very golden at the moment and a bit garish. However, we are going to leave it to weather naturally and it should go a nice natural silvery-grey in time.
They have been hard at work on the kitchen balcony, too. The hole in the roof is for the chimney hood for the barbecue which will be on the house wall, the right hand side as you look at it. The window the far end will be left open as will the gap on the left, giving plenty of air for the poor man sweating over the BBQ.
Here you can see this from the outside. The open space will have a guard rail with frosted glass below. We hope to put LED lights in the floor so that they light the glass, effectively making it opaque even in the evenings.
The outside cladding will finish by the downspout. From then on it will be rendered, as will the barbecue wall on the terrace.
They have also got on well with the cladding of the front of the extension. The cladding will lead on into elements of the original house, providing a visual link between the new and the old.
