Walls

We now have walls:

And a nice makeshift door to the walkwayUpstairs is also coming along. One wall already standing... Old house meets new house...

Foundation (part 2 & 3)

Foundation, part 2: The metal 'rebar'
(apparently that's what that metal frame is called)and the pipe for the 1st floor bathroom drain!Foundation, part 3:concrete under-floor is in!
who can guess what those wooden frames are for...?

and: the waterpipe for the dishwasher!
Making some real progress now. =))

Foundation (part 1)

The last of the bare necessities remaining from the 'old house' (downstairs toilet) has now been demolished

and there's that big stack of polystyrene, now nicely in place

looks nice ehRest of the foundation goes in tomorrow.
Let's get that house BUILT!

Mud and holes

Ziggy takes a final glance out of his windowAnd our last supper at nr. 6...The house is now completely empty and ready for handover to the lucky so-and-so's who are going to be the owners of nr. 6 as of Thursday =(((

This is what our new house looks like now!

First, there was a big digger.

It made a big hole, and dug up a bunch of mud.

Lots of it.Then, they put in some wood and steel.And concrete. And more wood.

(But there's still a bunch of mud)So they're going to put in some polystyrene to build our 3 storeys on!
Yep. Nice and strong!

It has begun

So, you saw the last posting, with a virtual tour through our stripped house.
Thought there wasn't much left to demolish? Wrong!

Meet Jos the bouwerand Jasper, doing some serious damage to the old extension and the old foundation
And then today, there came a big ole' truckbearing cement mixer, cement, and 6 big poststhere they go
And today they hammered those posts into the ground. Céline and I are standing at the future glass doors, bordering the future kitchen. Far out eh!

Virtual tour

Take a look at what's left of the old house...

While stripping the house, an old doorway reappeared, right where we will have one in the 'new' house!
this is left of the front room now...

going on to the back room...

in the old days, that brick wall was the outside wall!the old pantry (bij-keuken), and more former outside wall.

the old entrance into the kitchen, will be a cupboard in the futureinside the kitchenmoving on upfront side of house (former bedroom & walk in closet)back side of house former bedroom and bathroom!
see, there's the bathroom:into the porchroom
nicely strippedright up to the ceiling!
virtual tour of the whole thing...

Not much left to see here eh, Zig?