February 27th 2020

[H] Demolition proper was delayed a couple of days but today the garage was obliterated! It was pretty well built but the 10 tonne digger made short work of it. Here’s an hour’s work condensed into a couple of minutes:

Having got rid of the garage the guys moved the skip to underneath the old roof terrace door and simply chucked all the plasterboard and rubbish from upstairs out of the door into the skip below. It didn’t take long to fill it mind, we’ll be needing another one tomorrow. When it was first mentioned about moving the skip, I did wonder how on earth they’d do it – simple, just picked it up with the digger!

Now that we are most definitely a demolition/building site we have erected our ‘site safety’ notice on the gate. Normally your builder would do this sort of thing but as we don’t have a builder the responsibility for all this kind of stuff falls to us. Easy enough to do though, we just ordered one from Screwfix and Malcolm’s mounted it on a board.

We have finally had to abandon using the remaining toilet in the house. We’ve kept the one by the front door functioning up until now by simply rigging up a hose to fill the cistern (as there’s no mains water to the house any more). It’s had no door, or walls for that matter(!), for a while and has been rather exposed to the outside but it didn’t matter when it was just the two of us about. Now there are workmen on site and lack of privacy is a bit of an issue! So Malcolm has ripped it out and I’ve got the chemical toilet in the caravan up and running.