Hello world! We have survived the first month of renovating quite well. Bar a few minor hiccups that I suppose go hand in hand with the process. All in all, I think things are progressing well. Our plans have finally been submitted to council and we have appointed a structural engineer-Pieter Cloete. Pieter met with Errol and Peter on Thursday morning for the first inspection of the trenches for the new foundations as well as the existing foundations. He instructed Peter to widen the new trenches-which was done in a matter of hours and to "underpin" the existing foundations where we intend going double-story. He also expressed concern about the big sliding-stacking doors in the lounge/living room and felt we may need to loose the pressed steel ceiling or reduce the size of the door in the lounge in order to prop the opening sufficiently while building. Neither option given was going to work for us as this would have distroyed the front facade of the house and messed the interior flow of the ceilings! But not all was lost - after Errol,Peter & I put our heads together we manged to find a workable solution that pleased Pieter as well as us getting to keep the ceiling and doors as originally planned - YAY!!! Chris popped across yesterday and the guys were busy putting the re-inforcing in so that everything is ready to start "casting" concrete on Monday.
4 comments:
Looks like you are all making great progress. Hopefully we will get the full tour when we are in SA in December!
Looking Good! When can we stay with you? (that is in the "new" house!) G/D
hi cannt wait
looks like we will move in about september..... as long as we are in and unpacked before the wedding!!
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