Down on the corner

As mentioned in the last blog, walls are starting to appear.  Houses are built with cavity walls (one wall inside another), we are now seeing the outer cavity being built.  This is quite a time for us as we now see a house rather than blocks and concrete that will be essentially buried and not seen - groundwork.

The brickies start with the corners so the lines are right and then build out from there, this is what we found Thursday and Friday - and it was the best visit since day 1 when we saw the ground broken.

These photos are dedicated to Granny Lynn - this might be the first time she has been referenced on the internet and has only be browsing the internet for a few weeks but has read all the blogs so far.  Lynn - the internet won't read itself, you can sleep later!

All the walls you can see are outer walls.

Classic building technique, starting with the coins (corners).  This is a corner of Caitlin's bedroom.  The gap to the left will be glass doors giving a view of the forest.  On the right you can see the outer skin meeting the steps down the front of the house.

Caitlin gurning in the master en-suite.  The pipes are lying in the downstairs hallway.  To the right of the pipes is Ellie's bathroom.  This will have a door from the hallway to act as a main bathroom.

Above, if you can see the small blocks built in the middle of the photo this marks the border between Caitlin's bedroom in the foreground and Ellie's bedroom in the background.  Both rooms have large openings for doors that will provide views of the forest.  Ellie's room also has a view to the back garden which can be seen to the left of the photo.

The master bedroom view to the forest.  The only thing with this is we now think its too narrow.  Call to the architect on Monday to make a change.  As this will be the main window for the bedroom we need to be sure it is going to provide enough light, and we don't want to wish we changed it when it's too late.  So this needs to grow by half again.

Here is the whole shooting match.  It's great to be able to look down on the whole thing.