The BIG Build 2024.
Weeks 1 and 2
Day 1. Work begins, materials arriving.
Day 1. Walls stripped and wall divider built.
Day 1. Making a start on the drains.
Day 2. Walls plastered. Floorboards removed to start installing new pipe work.
Day 3. Starting to fit new boiler.
Old wallpaper discovered 1940's?
Day 5. Continuing to lay pipes.
Day 5. October 26 1973 newspaper under floorboards
WEEK 2. Day 6. Hot water tank removed
Day 6. More old wallpaper revealed.
Day 9. New window fitted in shower room.
Day 9. I started to prime fresh plaster with undercoat
Day 7. Roof work fitting the vent for the boiler.
Day 8. Visit of gas inspector to approve new boiler. Hot water and heat returns.
Day 9. New window fitted in shower room.
Day 10. Fitting shower with outlet pipe.
Day 10. More undercoat
Day 12. Beginning to lay waterproof flooring
Day 13. Toilet and shower complete 
Day 14. Our brilliant builders.
Shower and toilet complete.
Tiles for splashback behind sink and window over door ordered.
Now to paint.
In the old bathroom stripped and ready to be demolished.
More old wallpaper revealed.
The only insulation was 1 inch polystyrene!
Hanslope Public Baths
Day 15
Dr Who has arrived.
Our extension has gone. We have a new back door!
We have a bit of a different view out of our back window!
Week 4. Day 16
The digger's arrived and is making ready the foundations.
No Roman coins as yet!
Day 17. The big grab.
We now have a big hole ready for laying foundations.
Also an old bottle was found while digging, a beer bottle from Phipps brewery, Northampton.
Complete with pot stopper.
Day 18
Finishing off digging out the clay and old foundations.
Day 19.
Pipes laid and gravel packed in.
Day 20.
Groundworks ready for steel and concrete. Patio cleaned of clay.
Tiles fitted and the bathroom is now complete.
Next job decorating.
Week 5. Day 21
Steel reinforcement being laid.
Day 22/23
Steel laid and ready for the concrete.
Day 24
The concrete has arrived.
Pumping and levelling
This is very exciting. Waiting for the ball to appear, after cleaning the pipe.
The completed concrete raft
Week 6.
Day 25
We have lift off.
Day 26.
The walls are rising at speed.
Day 27.
First few layers of brickwork.
Day 28.
Week 7.
Day 29
Going up and up
Day 30
Day 31.
Enclosed in scaffolding.
The walls are ready for the roof.
The view from on top of the scaffolding.
Week 8.
Day 34
The wood arrives for the roof in the morning
Day 35
Continuing to build the roof.
Day 36.
Today involved finishing the wooden roof frame, insulation and
the roofers came to start adding the waterproof felt finish.
Day 37
The roof is almost finished.
Day 38.
The roof is finished complete with sky light.
WEEK 9.
Day 39/40
Laying the underfloor heating.
Scaffolding taken down.
Day 41
A layer of concrete is added to insulate and store heat from the underfloor heating.
A day to dry.
Day 43
We're all bricked up. New door into extension will be built!
Back door bricked up and walls for the downstairs toilet
and utility cupboard started.
WEEK 10.
Day 44
Plaster boards arrived for inside walls and ceiling
New door cut into kitchen wall.
Day 45
Started to dismantle the old kitchen
More old wallpaper discovered.
Plumbing and electrics
Windows and doors have arrived
Day 46.
View into the garden
Day 47.
Dust sheets ready for demolishing the wall between our sitting room
and the old kitchen
Windows and doors fitted
We now have one big room. Great for waltzes.
Day 48
Making a start on fixing the plaster boards.
Week 11.
Day 49
Plaster boards finished. Next job is plastering the walls.
Day 50/51
Plastering going really well. Lights in.
Week 12.
Day 53/54
'Dave the decorator' has started painting the new kitchen extension.
New doors being fitted.
fit plaster boards.
Day 55
WEEK 13.
Day 56-59
Kitchen furniture and fittings being added.
Soon beginning new flooring and walls to be plastered.
Rest of old kitchen to be removed.
The kitchen has gone, the floor has been removed
and plaster boards have begun to be added
WEEK 14.Day 61
Our old kitchen wall looks like a work of art!
Plastering the front room and preparing the floor for the covering.
Week 15. The last full week.
Day 65
Floor is ready for final top layer
Kitchen bar complete.
Day 66
Starting to landscape back patio area
New floor fitted
Day 67, (next to last full day)
Finishing off details. Downstairs toilet, electrics inside and outside.
Tiling in kitchen and downstairs toilet.
Continuing to lay patio area.
The boys are doing a great job cleaning.
DAY 68.
The Final Day and completion of our build.
Our brilliant builders
The whole crew
The final delivery, gravel.
The builders have left us a brilliant new build, a big thank you to all.
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