Asbestos

Another day, another issue, another cheque - problem solved: they should be removing the asbestos today!
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Took a call from the builder this morning. His team had found asbestos on the site.

I believe it is contained in the eaves of the attic and stacked up from a previous rip out but will need specialist attention! Oh Joy! No idea how much cost or what the time implications are, but the builder seemed optimistic it wasn't going to be a significant problem.

Fingers crossed.

The roof is finished

I went out on the roof this week to tread the scaffolding boards and admire the great leadwork and finishing...

Now we need additional insulation inside.

More pics of the garden

Front shrub is no more... so we have a skip

so the inside is clearer now!

Kitchen plans

Three DIY stores, four planning appointments, nine hours of negotiations and we have finally agreed on the attached kitchen layout. I think it's fair to say Mark won more of the battles than I did, but I got the oven I wanted so I think I can declare victory!

Trees

For the last two weeks our builder has been piling rubbish up inside the house as he's been unable to get a skip in the front garden as a tress has been hogging all the space. After, a fair amount of going aorund in circles on this point, it turns out the tree is in fact a bush and therefore not subject to planning requirements, so it can finally come down .......hurray!! Now all we need to do is get rid of the monstrosity in the back.................... http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XSLPagesDC/acolnetcgi.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=62828

New roof

Here's what it looked like before...

And now it looks like this!