Our conservatory

As we're getting older and my wife is one of those that with the slightest puff of wind is off indoors moaning it cold out here,  even if it's sweltering, while I still sit outside.

We decided it would be better to get a conservatory built.

After many months of measuring and planning and designing, I finally came up with my own design that we wanted.  , While this was in process I was waiting for a major operation on my liver, several cancelled dates yes you guessed it my operation date came through.

What to do, proceed with the conservatory, or cancel the operation and wait many months maybe a year again, no I needed this operation badly. 

We decided to bit the bullet and get a builder to do all the work this time around, as I would be laid up for at least 6 months. Now to choose a builder to get it built to my precise specification which we finally decided one after some very fierce negotiation out of five quotations, some were OK. Others quotes were just figures plucked out of the sky they didn't have a clue, the one we chose his start date a few days after my operation, all I could do was sit back and watch, frustrating or what, I am a builder.

Footings over-site and drainage all connected, dwarf walls and main wall all constructed with framework partially done, NOTE, a hipped roof at this end.

The exterior is now complete its fully glazed,  freshly rendered, and it only needs painting.

 

Looking down the far side nearest to where the new panelled fence will go there is one panel temporarily fixed.

French door on the end nearest to the front of the house NOTE with a glazed gable end above, there is a reason for that as I want to at a later date to construct a kitchen with a trusted roof to it which will fit over the cable end,  so these doors will open into the new kitchen.

The interior the electrical 1st fix completed and all plaster-boarding were done before the plastering and cement screed to the floor.

 Floor screeded, plastered and the electrician has second fixed, lights of our own choosing, builder finished. I now have to get it tiled and painted.

Looking out through the kitchen door into a new dining area, floor all tiled and wall painted plus I moved the china cabinets out there as well.

Lounge area now all furnished we also decided to have sun blinds fitted, as you view the photo on the right side it gets the early morning sun, and on the left side it catches the last of the evening sun at the far end.

The sun rises in the east and set in the west. Hence as the sun climbs throughout the day from about eleven in the morning. The sun comes through the french doors. As the sun swings around to the left side of the picture for the rest of the day, thus giving us sun and shade as the sun continues around to the west, it's setting, perfect. There it is finished, now when is it going to stop raining.