First job was to whip the roof off
Ready to make the bedrooms the same height to aid wheel chair access
At least it was summer!
This area was about to be excavated
Installing the new drainage system
Walls up & vellux windows going in
Superb match
I hand cut every piece of stone you can see!
Very neat indeed & exterior tanking below ground using a bithutherm membrane
The longest wall i've ever rendered
Got it spot on though!
I even put these two massive beams in on my own using scaffolding & jacks
Getting the fall right in the physo room
Screeding done
View over the pool area with roof acess
Before Pic
Due to humidity I opted for a wet plaster for the tile backing
Getting the foundations ready
Lots of drains to sort out
Still did my best on the back where you can't even see it!
Matching boiler room in random sandstone & vented hardwood door
My digger, starting the pool foundations
Looking good
Shoring up the soon to be access tunnel for the services
Giving it a good whacker
Got help to sweep up late one evening!
Re-bar in & passed by building inspector
Two layers of mesh & lots of concrete
Starting the pool walls
Up & over the re-bar
Suspended block & beam floor
Starting the tanking process
I decided to make bigger steps to help the physiotherapist get in & out with Aiden
Still plastering & electrics going in
waterproof rendering
Tanked & ready for the pool tilers
Before the garage
Bricking up the old doorway
Put a matching window in
Ready to get rid of all the old concrete
Reduced the height of the driveway
Well at least the concrete was an easy pour!
That deep enough for you?
Slab ready for the next pour
The customer!
Trench block ready
Internal garage walls going up
Easy does it
Matching stone
I put a stone bob the builder gargoyle over Aidens bedroom to look over him!
Looking nice & neat
Aiden & his dad
Nearly done, It was a very hard job for one person this, there should have been three of us on it but I was left to do it on my own after just one week into the build.
I used a farm, my digger and a cheap truck to remove a few hundred tons of earth from the drive to level it out so that Aidens wheel chair would'nt tip over