Day 12: Floor framing now complete

It's beginning to look like a room, not a hole in the ground. Chris has done an amazing job attaching the new bearers to the old ones that still go under the floor in the hallway, all supported by a kind of laminated beam sitting on new concrete stumps. Should last another 100 years.

See the spliced bearers on the beam, on the stumps.




See how big the new shower is going to be.


And the new window has been fitted.

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