On Monday it was just Stu and I, so we set about starting the stud work on the ground floor, focusing on getting the kitchen stud walls up and ready for the first fix electrics and plumbing later in the week.  On Tuesday Dean the electrician was on site, starting on his first fix electrics, while Wayne and Stu finished off the facia on the front elevation and also the cloaking of the bedroom and bathroom window.  They also went round and siliconed all the windows while we had the scaffolding for its last day, before it was taken down on the Wednesday.  So that was all the exterior work on the extension completed.  We could now totally focus on moving the interior work on.

On Wednesday Wayne and Stu plaster boarded the ceilings in the first floor rooms, while I worked on finishing the bathroom stud work.  On Thursday and Friday we had the plumbers in doing the first fix for the central heating system and also the hot and cold feeds to the kitchen and bathroom.  We also had the stairs delivered, so while I had the afternoon off to visit the dentists, Wayne and Stu set about putting the stairs together and fixing them in place.

Friday was a worry to start with, but then got better as the day progressed, but we ended up no further along work wise than where we finished off at the end of Thursday.  The reason?  We had a problem with the stairs.  When we stood on the forth step of the stairs, our head would disappear between the first floor joists, so you could only get up the stairs if you were about 3ft in height!  It was a mix of both the architect and us getting it wrong.  We had missed putting in a sloping bulk head, which if we had done in the first place, would of meant you could just about get up the stairs without banging your head.  But the architect had not allowed enough room at the base of the stairs for the inter connecting interior door that was going in, so as it stood, with the stairs in their current position we couldn’t put the door in.  So we spent all of Friday adjusting the first floor joists, putting in the sloping bulk head and moving the stairs 500mm to the right so everything ended up as it should have been.  We all make mistakes, and it is important to learn from them, and I don’t intend having to move another set of stairs anytime soon!