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This morning I popped over to the town hall to pick up the stamped drawings/plans and some other paperwork. It was a pretty simple process... the council inspector talked me through a couple of things that he intends to check in the house and he got me to sign as having picked up the drawings. He seemed liked a pleasant guy and even gave me a tatty old business card and said to contact him if there were any problems.

So, we just need to fill in the official form saying that we're planning to start in two days and we can officially start knocking down the remaining load bearing walls. Of course, nothing's as simple as it sounds... what is not mentioned is that they require a copy of some official paper from the building contractor to be included with the form... so we have to wait to get this off the building contractor.

I popped 'round the house to meet up with Scott the carpenter to talk him through the windows that he's planning on double glazing (again... hopefully he'll remember this time!) and also the stairs for which I've asked him to come up with a quote for us. Interestingly, the builders have done some more work since our last visit on Saturday.


They've knocked a bit more wall out from the void space that we're reclaiming, including cutting of the steel beams that were holding up the bit of false wall above them.


More impresssive though, they've already cut out the hole in the floor that's going to acommodate the new stairs. They appear to have replaced the steel beam that was in this floor with a wooden one and they've already put in the cross bracing around the opening.

Looks like the electrician has already been round too, since there are markings on the walls where all the electrical points will be located.


Seems that they've already knocked out some more of the wall where the kitchen is going to be located, which is really opening up the room and making it feel quite spacious and more light. Presumably this bit of wall wasn't load bearing after all?

We've got a valuator coming 'round on Friday... just need to convince him that the work we're doing is increasing the value of the property so that we can convince the bank to pay for it all!