Getting rid of the wall by the stairs

We were suffering from covid when the window guy announced he was coming a month earlier than expected. This wall needed to go before we could clear stuff out of his way to install all the windows. It was a bit of a trial tbh! But so glad to have it gone. There is another one the same the other side of the stairs still to go. Boo hoo hoo.

It looks fantastic now it is gone. But we are sticking with the plan of having a new wall here eventually to keep kitchen smells in the kitchen, plus a large part of the kitchen units need to be against that wall!

Having removed various bits of insulation we can now clearly see the crack between the original internal wall (left) and the front wall (right). Bit of a worry!

Looking down through the 3rd section (of 7). Next thing is to replace any joists that need it and then lay the new upstairs subfloor.

This is the rubble from knocking down part of the breeze block (very not original) wall to open this up to it’s original 6x6m size

 It will eventually be kitchen/dinner with a small seating area as well. We have decided that the 2 beams need a little support from below to take out bounce from the floor upstairs and stop the beams sagging further (there is an 11cm difference between the ends and the middle) so there will be a couple of pillars in the downstairs room. Details of the design still being looked at..,