Kitchen number two

The second kitchen - which will be our main kitchen, on the first floor - started to arrive today.
The two men installing it have said they will be there for another two days.
Here you can see the basic outline of it and the carousel corner whirly cupboard tray thingies.

Balcony and beams

The balcony on the garden side has been removed as the rotten wood running up between the window frames has to be replaced (see yesterday's posts).



Luckily it's a push in, kick out type of structure.
It's currently in a collapsed state under the tree - which lost most of its leaves in last night's windy storm.

New floor number 2

The laminate flooring is going down in the first floor today. That's the biggest area of flooring in the whole house and it has to be down today so the kitchen can arrive tomorrow morning.
The picture's not blurred - the room is full of dust.

Warm feet

Not wanting to have frozen toes after stepping out of the shower (the bathroom is over the cellar, or the cellar is under the bathroom depending on your point of view) we decided to install underfloor heating in the bathroom. The electrician came today and in conjunction with the tiler installed a heating mat. I do hope it works as the tiler has now plastered (or something) over it so he can lay the floor tiles.

Now you see it .....



Now you don't.

Cables

On a brighter note, the Kabel BW men put in this nice arrangement of cables yesterday. They don't actually do anything at the moment but we remain hopeful that they will one day soon carry TV, internet and telephone into the house.

Uh oh! - more rotten beams

The former owner made quite a good job of hiding them, but as soon as you take away the ugly metal cladding on the outside of the house you realise why it was there - to cover up the rotten beams.
More work for Mr Baun and his ever increasing team of helpers.

Just before we had to leave there were 5 of them taking down the balcony. We decided not to stay and watch.

Shed-in-waiting

In the garden there is a shed-in-waiting. The wood's all there but suddenly due to newly discovered rotten beams the carpenters are all busy elsewhere. So the wood for the shed will wait...