From the back of the house you can see the lintels in place and most of the brickwork is now complete, apart from the peaks. The botton left wood panel is there to allow the builders access, and the doors will be fitted once everyone has stopped going in and out with wheelbarrows etc.

The front of the House is looking better, and hidden away under the scaffolding you can just see the sandstone arch above the front door, there is a second one due to be fitted above the window as well, to match.

Inside the house the plastering out continues, with most of the rooms now complete - and starting to dry out. Its strange how the different plaster colours, from wet to dry change the size of the room, the dry light coloured rooms look fairly large now, and you can see where everything is going to fit, well hopefully.

The fireplace is under way. Here you can see the brick sides, and then pieces of plasterboard either side - this will be where the fireplace sits, so you will see some brick and then the brick interior. There is an Aga Wenlock going in here. The little bit of metal you can see is where the woodburner will connect into, and the rest of the chimney is made up of a Pumice liner which will go up inside the Chimney breast, and this is surrounded by small pumice stones.

You can see a better view of the brickwork from here, and the piles of dirt, which will be used for landscaping once we work out the best way to finish the front area off.

We are now looking at the landscaping - and part of the tidying up that needs completing, is the Leylandi hedges.  They have got a bit spindly, and have big gaps at the bottoms, which will need sorting to give some privacy.

We also seem to have some dead areas on the trees as well, so the plan is to replace some of the area with a wall, but keep as much as we can in place. so partly wall, which steps between 2.2m and 1.8m, as it goes along the boundary, the back to the Leylandi hedge.  Should look nice when its done, but it wasnt in the budget!

The wiring is nearing the end of its first fix, and finally all the strands are coming together down by the consumer box.  You can see the large black armoured cable which is for outside, the rest are the electric cables from around the house - and yet to join the mix is a pile of cat6 cables, so a fair bundle of cables to sort out.

All  the first fix plumbing is now complete, and next step will be the underfloor heating for the ground floor.

The bricks are coming along, now the first level is complete, but with all the scaffolding and polythene protecting everything its really difficult to get an impression of how it will look, but so far it looks great and we are pleased with the choice of bricks.