The pace quickens

Well it has to, really, as we have arranged a moving date three and a half weeks from today. So with weekends and a couple of Jubilee Bank Holidays, that's 14 more working days for the house to be habitable, and for us to pack up our possessions once again. 

In the last few days, things have not only been continuing indoors, but outside some serious digging has happened and we now have a completed drainage system with a soakaway in our field strip for our rainwater. Armoured cables have been made ready to provide an electrical supply to both the front and rear gardens, and the fixing of cladding has re-started.

the carcases of the utility cupboards are in place

we have a cupboard under the stairs, cunningly made of grooved mdf to match the main oak doors (grooved mdf has been a theme of the week)

inside the little cupboard we have light and power ( and the cable is waiting to be connected to lights on the stairs)

more grooved mdf, with oak nooks, on the partition headboard wall in our bedroom

which Elizabeth likes very much

fitting out has started in our wardrobe,

in the guest room wardrobe,

and in the large cupboard on the landing

curved skirting board has been skilfully fitted, outside .....

and inside (what look like dots are grooves cut to allow the skirting to bend)

here's a rather odd image, taken to show the bulkhead light above our high, rooflit ensuite shower (it's to the left and below the shower head) in which the 'grey' tiles are actually white, and the shower tray drain is reflected in the (actually clear) shower door to the left

to preserve the beech hedge, this drainage trench through to the field strip had to be hand-dug .....

..... through to the field strip

we may need to know the routes of the drains sometime in the future - this one is in front of the sitting room

the back corner of the sitting room

out past the end of the sitting room to the soakaway in the field strip

by tea-time today the field strip was level again, as seen from the sitting room .....

..... and from our bedroom

and the machinery was at rest


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