Tear us a new one

As promised, today the new back door went in and the living room went from looking like this (as pictured in this post):

to this:


At the bottom right of the door that's the TV cable, by the way, not a worrying crack in the wall. No sign of a window yet: I'm hoping we'll be getting that soon.

The back of the house now looks like this:


I think it'll be a bit nicer when this arrangement is replaced with patio doors.

On a less cosmetic note, the extension rubble was mostly taken away today and we're down to soil, ready to be properly investigated tomorrow.


The foundations have started to give up some of their secrets already. I'm no structural engineer but this looks to me like a concrete pile holding up the corner of the original house:


I really hope we don't have to start looking at that sort of specification. We'll know for sure by the end of the week.