Day 98 - Doors

Fitting the hinges

Lots has happened in the past few days, but the most exciting was the arrival of my new doors. Four panel oak and they are all now in place and look great. I bought some oil/wax for them yesterday and Martin will be applying that tomorrow.

Loft Shower room Door and the door to the roof terrace

 The door to the roof terrace now has its double glazed panel fitted, Martin has finished all the painting over the past few days and started on oiling the wood on the roof terrace. He will finish that tomorrow. The glass company still hasn't finished the balustrade. I don't know why they're taking so long but it seems to be a combination of them having taken incorrect measurements and supplier problems. It really needs to be done soon as otherwise it will hold up the finishing of the project.

Martin oiling the terrace

Day 94 - Kitchen units & More Colour

Kitchen units in place

The kitchen is almost in, just the appliances and doors to go. They came to measure up for the worktop today and that will be delivered in a week. Also almost all the woodwork is painted, and the loft bedroom is now blue! It's funny how different the paint looks on the wall. Both the colours in the kitchen/sitting room and the loft bedroom look completely different to what I thought I had chosen! Today I also booked the carpet to be fitted. Hopefully everything will be ready for it...

Loft bedroom painted

Day 91 - Cupboards, Shelves & Painting

My new green sitting room

I had a last minute job in London today so dropped in to the flat after work. The sitting room/kitchen has been painted and is now ready for the kitchen units to be fitted. I think it looks pretty damn good! They should be starting on the kitchen installation tomorrow.

The built-in cupboards in the loft shower room

Also Nasco has made a lot of progress on the cupboards up in the loft bedroom and bathroom as well as adding some shelves next to the sloping chimney breast. I can't wait to move in...

Loft bedroom shelves and wardrobe

Day 87 - More Painting & Wardrobes

Loft wardrobe and shelves

Nasco has been hard at work making cupboards and wardrobes. He has nearly finished the one in the loft bedroom which needed to fit an awkward space under the sloping mansard roof. The downside of loft rooms is the sloping ceilings which drastically cuts down on available space and can make it difficult to manage storage space. Also today Martin has been busy painting and I got someone round to fit a television aerial so that I no longer have to play around with an indoor aerial that never seems to be quite in the right place.

Martin painting my bedroom

Day 85 - Alcove Cupboards & Shelving

It's been a week since my last update and it's been a week of preparing and painting woodwork; door frames, windows, skirting etc. This all takes time and the guys have also been waiting for delivery of a new paint sprayer for the walls.

Nasco fitting the alcove units

Todays update though is all about the cupboards that Nasco has built to go either side of the fireplace. Before starting this project, I had one cupboard and a set of shelves on the right of the fireplace but the shelves weren't very sturdy and bent under the weight of the books that were on them. Nasco has kept the cupboard on the right hand side but built a new cupboard on the left and shelves on on both sides. They will need around four coats of paint so that will take some time but already they look fantastic.

Most of the glass in place - note new storage box/bench on the left

The glass balustrade round the terrace is mostly in place and was meant to be finished a few days ago but it's another company installing it and I need to chase them again. The kitchen is being delivered on Tuesday and the boiler also should go in this week. I'm aiming to move in at the start of July.

Day 78 - Skirting, Door Architraves, Painting

Wood flooring and skirting in the loft

I've been staying the past two nights at the flat despite it still being very much a building site. I've been washing myself on the roof terrace under the hosepipe, (as that is the only running water I have), and very much hope that the neighbours haven't been watching as the balustrade isn't yet up!

Architrave round the door frame and painted bathroom

Progress since the last update is that the bathrooms have been painted and the tiling/grouting finished. The wood floors are now fully laid in the kitchen/living room and the loft bedroom. Today they put in lots of the skirting and architraves round the door frames. The glass balustrade goes up this Friday. Even though it looks like a building site, the main things left to do are the boiler/radiators (all the pipework is in place), kitchen installation, painting and carpeting. There will be a delay for the delivery of the bathroom basin as I ordered one that is too large and the smaller one isn't in stock. I also need to order tiles and basin for the downstairs loo but they will come very quickly (I hope!).

Day 75 - Bathrooms & Roof Terrace

Bathroom tiling - pre-grout

Shower room tiling

The bathrooms are getting there. Nearly all the tiles are laid, just need to add shower screen, loos and basins then they are ready for painting. Meanwhile below is a photo of the terrace. I need to find out when the balustrade glass will be coming for that, then we just need to paint the rendered wall and it's ready for the summer BBQ season... when I buy myself a barbeque. I have promised the team a barbeque on completion. Apparently lots of previous clients have done the same but so far nobody has delivered on the promise. It's now in writing so I have to!

Terrace decking all down... oh except for one piece to the right of the staircase!