That was quick!

Two of the builder’s workmen began working again on site this morning. I wasn’t sure what they were doing and didn’t go up to find out until after they’d left for lunch at about midday. We’d only discussed what types of window sills and door thresholds I preferred in our meeting the other day – beige round-nosed for the window sills and plain grey straight front for the door thresholds – and to my surprise I found that the two ‘maçons’ were well on the way to getting them all into place.

I had to go out later in the afternoon and by the time I’d returned the two workmen had packed up and gone leaving the site clean and tidy and their work all completed to a high standard. Here’s a shot of the back of the house showing the threshold of the rear double doors, the window sills of bedrooms one and three further away both at the same height and that of the kitchen, closer, slightly higher so the opened window will clear the mixer tap on the sink.

Here are a couple of shots showing the thresholds for the south and front-facing double doors.

Now a couple of shots showing the front door and the separate WC window and the windows of the utility room, bathroom and bedroom two.

And to finish off, several internal views.

You might be asking yourself why it is that the window sills protrude outwards beyond the walls while the door thresholds don’t. The reason is that the door thresholds won’t be seen because all of the door frames will, of course, come with their own decorative colour-matched thresholds which will be about the same colour as the window sills.

There are also a couple of other things to note. The sills and thresholds all extend some way into the house and this is an indication of how much thicker the walls will become once the internal insulation and dry lining have been added as then the sills and thresholds won’t be visible.

You can also see how high above the floor level the tops of the thresholds are. There won’t actually be steps in the openings other than the door frame thresholds mentioned above. Some of the height difference will be taken up by the floor tiling but most of it will be an additional thickness of floor screed that will be laid in the near future to bring the floor to completely level all over.

This will be especially important in the far corner of bedroom one where the rainwater that entered the building before the roof covering went on flowed to causing a deep puddle. There are several other highs and hollows that were to be expected given that the first floor screed was only quickly laid by eye, with the team having done pretty well considering. The second screed will bring those all to dead level ready for the tiling and the bedroom floor coverings to be laid, the latter by myself.