Sun Dial Lodge, Pelham

As the exterior framing goes up, one starts to get a sense of how the back of the house will eventually look.  Here’s where the windows

Here is Carolene helping me celebrate the fact that the master bedroom has a floor again.  And here’s what it looked like moments before, as viewed

The plywood base is going down.  I can no longer see into the basement from the kitchen.  Yay!

This is where the stairs from garden to basement used to be.  Nearly impossible to tell, isn’t it?  First, the doorway was bricked up and cemented

The garden access to the basement has been the one remaining carbuncle disturbing the house’s lines since the pantry came down several weeks ago.  With the

We used to access the basement this way, but the stairs have now been removed!  These pics give a bit more perspective:  

A nice flat base for the stairs.  It will be wonderful when all the basement floors look like this!  In the image below, you can also

Floor joists have started to be put in.  It feels like we are starting to move from “things coming down” to “things going up”.

I love this image of broken bits of the old wood, and offcuts of the new, collected in a gulley between the original and newly constructed

It is becoming clear that water ingress is a problem, and we’re going to need a French drain to wick it away.  Sadly, yet more $$$

The original concrete floor is coming up, in preparation for the rerouting of the soil pipe then laying of a lovely new floor.  It was much

There is now a huge hole in the garden that will be lined with a porous membrane and filled with gravel to allow groundwater and runoff