Old House Gone

Its been exciting times this week with the announcement that the old house is officially gone.  We saw it on Tuesday morning and it looked roughly like this :

I managed to get back out on Wednesday evening to see how it all went :

Unfortunately I was beaten by the sun.   I'll go out tomorrow and have a proper look around but by all accounts (and my dark viewing) Hughes have done a great job.  Sending the invoice before they had finished seemed a bit cheeky but it seems like the way in the building industry.  Thanks to Darren for his excellent work on the site.

Debbie and I picked out the "granite" (I would suggest its really a biotite schist) slab for our kitchen benches at TTI's warehouse.  They have stickered two slabs to cut the tops from, and we'll be able to go out and make sure they cut the pieces the way we want once the templates are complete.

Most of our colour selections are done, just waiting on Cathrin to call us to arrange a meeting time.   We should have an updated set of drawings early next week. Hopefully not too many rounds of corrections on these and Ashford can get cracking on the building permit.  I'm still hopeful of them getting to site by the 1st of September.