Another week, more small changes

We have had a few days away at Emma's this week, and most of Wales has been pretty wet. We received acceptable quotations from our new renewables contractor, Bentley Bespoke renewables, reducing our anticipated spend by taking advice not to install battery storage for our PV-generated electricity at this stage. Perhaps battery technology will improve (and prices reduce) in the next few years, and one or more batteries can be retro-fitted.

The latest batch of photographs taken 8th August show relatively minor advances with the roof joinery and brick/blockwork. The next big change will come when the roofing felt, battens, slates and PV panels go on.

more work has been done on the soffits and fascia boards

a number of window openings have been resized with added bricks, and cavity closures have been added

the corner brick pier at the junction of the dining room windows has been built

corner pier from inside

a wider view

bedroom 1, with damp blocks showing the effect of recent wet weather

this will look very different when the internal walls separating landing, bathroom and bedrooms go in

the sills of the windows of bedroom 4 have been raised (as planned) by brickwork

a bit of a jumble of shadows looking across the stairhead to bedroom 1

across where the dining room green roof and rooflight will be, to the picture window of bedroom 2

one of the large windows in bedroom 1 will go here

from bedroom 1 towards the road, this is the strip of the adjacent field which we will take over

upper left are the two openings where Velux windows will go

view past the base of the woodburner chimney, looking out over the field towards the Clwydian hills

looking along the front of the house in the direction of the village centre (lower left the trimmed steel of one of the window supports)

looking along the back of the house towards the village centre

this is an 'informal' section of scaffolding 

here's on the right is the joinery for the two Veluxes at the back of the house over the hall and stairway

builders have accidents - dead Stanley, the former spirit level

bargeboard, soffit and fascia detailing

we're tucked in alongside Plas Coch Bach
from across the field, our ground floor now hardly shows above the corn - to be cropped in late September 


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