So, another house update for you all; garden update tomorrow, maybe. Lots to update, but no photos yet…
And as a special extra bonus, I’ve been out taking pictures. Of rusty things. Yes.
For the last two days the house has been home to three trades; general builders (out in the garden still), the plumbers and the electricians. And I have to say, they’ve made amazing progress. Well, substantial progress, anyhow.
If you’ve ever smelt the musty, stale are that you find under floorboards in an old house, that’s what our entire downstairs now smells of. The plumbers have been rootling around under the ground floor, and like some small furry animal perking out of a hole, pipes appear here-there-and-everywhere. Disconcertingly neatly, too. They are, in this instance, aided by the fact that this house has about a 4 foot, maybe 5 foot deep space below the floor. Not quite enough to make a cellar, sadly, but impressive none-the-less.
Unfortunately, as I say, since the floor has been up (in the cupboard under the stairs, mainly) for the last two days, the house faintly reaks. It’s only going to get worse, too, because the electrician is going to be hiding under there next week…
The upstairs, mostly, looks like a bomb has exploded.
The carpets are up and the wiring’s been channelled into the walls…
We’ve ripped the ceiling tiles down in all but one room (that room’s just over half done). What’s more odd is that downstairs, apart from the Valor Inca gas fire disappearing and it’s place being taken by a plain white radiator, there’s little to see. The house, downstairs, apart from the streaks of tester paint scattered around is surprisingly untouched. This will, of course, not stay like this. Whilst the works of the plumbers are largely hidden from view, that of the electrician is somewhat less…tidy. He’s very neat, and seems to clean up very nicely after himself (honestly, the builders, the electrician and the plumber, they all seem a pretty neat bunch). But channeling into bricks and mortar (and every wall in this house is bricks and mortar) is not a clean, nor quiet, job.
Currently, as a side point, we have a very nice lamp upstairs…
The builders continue apace – they’ve put up the majority of the retaining wall – and waterproofed it. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch them (today, with the treck with the car I didn’t get a chance) – and ask them about quoting for the house…
In other news, while I was at JLH I took the opportunity to photograph some dead machinery. Dead Minors, for the most part. The set is here, but to whet your appetite:
The only problem with this is that it made me want to go and get a proper digital camera again. The iPhone’s much better than the old iPhone, but it’s not a patch on a camera with interchangeable lenses…
