Day 12 - Bricking It

Dimitri loads the mixer while Ivan counts bricks

The cement mixer has been going all day today. I went up to the site with Tom to check on progress and lots has happened since Saturday. The living room has been cleared completely and now looks very large. The carpet is out and the archway has completely gone. When the stud wall to the kitchen comes down, we'll really start to see what the room will be like.

Archway gone. Stud wall next to go. Second doorway will be blocked up

The rest of the plaster in the hall has all come off and been taken back to bare brick, Ivan has bricked around the top bathroom window and built up most of the wall between the bathroom and the loft. He showed us that the existing exterior walls to the bedroom are not completely vertical but that is maybe to be expected in an old Victorian terrace. We discussed insulating the walls from the inside as there's no cavity. This would make it much warmer and is probably worth the loss of some interior space.

My bedroom without plaster. The wall on the right needs to be built up.

They will start building the roof tomorrow so wanted Velux measurements for the loft bedroom and bathroom. I have just been online looking up all the different options... there are all sorts of different sizes and specs. I can't wait to see what the space looks like with a roof!

The rest of the plaster in the stairwell has now gone