- BEFORE: The original front porch, which we added in February 2004.
- Inside the porch, showing old outside wall (green cladding).
- View from hallway through the old wooden (now inside) front door and porch to inside of original front door.
- DURING: Porch and step have been removed and work begun on the foundations for the new front. Wheelbarrows are hiding deep holes!
- Another angle. The wooden front door opens into the hallway, to the right is the current WC (note overflow coming out).
- The following day. The excavations have reached their full depth.
- View of new foundations, below the wheelbarrows again.
- The original drainage for the sink in the WC.
- The new outside wall is started, and drainage pipes have been renewed. The pipe coming under the front door currently serves the kitchen and upstairs.
- Another angle. The pipe coming under the WC serves the old WC. Note the vertical pipe which will serve both the new WC and new bathroom once they have both been built above this corner.
- The new outside wall starts to take shape.
- Another angle.
- And from the front. The gap on the left is for the new front door.
- Another angle. This corner will be the new downstairs WC, the green cladded wall will be removed.
- Mains gas coming in by the front doors. Note the colour difference on the outside wall between what was inside and outside the front porch. Both sections used to be the same colour yellow, but the outside section has faded so much as to be unrecognisable.
- The next day. The outside wall grows.
- Another angle. The WC window is now defined.
- New lintel above the new front door and WC window.
- Snow arrives!
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