Work begins on Rosie's Bedroom

After such a drought here we are the second day on the trot with an update. My thinking is updating every day makes it a short task whereas trying to update less frequently will become a drag. Let's see how long this lasts, though.

Firstly I want to mark today as the 2000th day since A joined me; what an amazing time this has been, and what a lot has happened. Thank you for joining me, and making this life with me; it has been amazing, and I'm sure will continue to be!!!

Now, to today's progress....

How the room looked at the beginning of the day

Bekir and Sali getting stuck into clearing

Bekir's son on station outside taking materials through the window

The spare door is hefted to storage in the Green Building

Room clear, the next stage can begin...

For now, however, here we are on the first day of the return of Bekir, Sali and Bekir's son (I need to find his name out!) which has been a great success indeed. Bekir's son drives and so we don't have to give them lifts both ways any more which makes a huge difference in our days, particularly now we have Rosie. They arrived just after 8am and after a briefing (I was rather stressed with a super busy work day as well) they got stuck into clearing out the room and this was done in double quick time. Bekir was a bit upset I was going to just burn some of the left over chunks of wood in there so he took them to use in his bee houses. For all the materials I wanted to keep that was being moved to the Green Building they took a fly screen down and passed it all out the window which was much more efficient. Some stuff was too large, of course, like the spare doorway so that had to be hefted the long way round. In double quick time the room was cleared and the next stage could begin.

Sally breaking up the slab on the floor

It didn't take long for this process at all

Bekir grabs a scraper for the wall while waiting for spoil to move

How the room looks at the end of the day

The next stage involved breaking up the slab and carting it out in wheelbarrows. This was already quite broken up and loose and with a pickaxe it did not take long to make a substantial dent in it. They cycled the jobs, two pushing barrows and one swinging the pickaxe, and once Bekir got stuck in to scraping the paint from the walls, and in this way the job moved forwards at a great pace. I had asked them to put the spoil onto the driveway by the entrance where we had worn some dips into the drive and this they did very well. By the time it got too dark to work they had done about 5/6 of the floor. Tomorrow will involve getting the big breaker drill out to take the platform down and then it'll be onto digging deeper to put in insulation, water proof layer and metal reinforcement.

It's been a busy day, but what a great progress to report. I'll try to get back tomorrow with another update.

Thanks for reading.