The Garage

I was reminded about putting some facility in for an irrigation system (thankyou Gary) so after the scaffolding came down, Bob got his trusty digger down the side of the house, and made a trench to run the pipe from the house to the garage area

This is the garage from the rear - we have extended the roof out to give us a bar b q area, which was nicely put together by Rob and Clive, even down to building a nice brick base around each of the columns

Here is the front of the garage, complete with temporary door, where we now store odd bits. Also the fence posts have gone in and we are just waiting for delivery of the panels.

The fridge gets fitted

Doesnt look a lot here, but the american fridge freezer was finally craned out of the storage container and just about fits in the recess, and all plumbed in.

The house frontage

The scaffolding has gone down on our neighbours house, which is in complete contrast to our own traditional style, but I think it works in having opposite styles and provides spectators who regularly stop and look a debating point.

Its hard to think that we are planning to be in the house in a couple of weeks, but most of the work at the front is small finishing jobs. The drive and garden areas are all mapped out, and we will wait to tarmac and finish after we have moved in.

The door is on, and the paving finished off, the white semi circle is waiting for a custom designed edwardian style window pane (again an eye watering I am sure its going to be alright decision). The inside of the porch is still not finished, and that should hopefully be done this week.

The Wall!

The wall is pretty much done and the work is cracking along around the back. Here the patio area is being finished off. We did have a differnce in levels when we 'dropped' the house down 300cm, hence the small wall to handle the difference. All paving is natural sandstone so varies quite a bit on colour and composition, and we also mixed up sizes, and it works really well. It looks fairly grey here, but it is mainly a sandstone buff colour, and that should show better when it is cleaned up.

The wall and paving from the side path, this was where the conifers were, and despite the eye watering cost of replacing them, the space it has freed up is more than we thought, Just to the left bottom of the picture, there is a small patch of earth, which is where we will plant the wall climbers.

The wall from the outside, it must be the longest wall in Nantwich, and the insets you can see give it the strength, further down these are replaced by pillars