The Northampton project

Phase 1

Site before starting work

Cinema Room window, knocking off plaster to fix xmet onto the walls to strengthen them up before a sand and cement render
Old Window
Old Gas Pipe
Site Preperation, covering the area where all of the soil will be dropped for a grab lorry to come and pick it up from to remove 16 tons at a time instead of skips
Taking down the new old extension
Original Building showing an old bricked up window that was to be taken out along with the sill and rebricked up to make it look as though it were never there
Before Shot of the existing house where the extension is going to go
Original detailed paper mache mold to be copied so that they can be reproduced in the cinema room
Original detailed paper mache mold to be copied so that they can be reproduced in the cinema room
Old lead gas pipes for gas lights
Rubble on the board from the old new extension ready to be taken away with the grab pile (we were keeping the bricks coming out of the existing Victorian house to reuse but the modern bricks from the old new extension were rubbish)
Before shot of the old new extension and the Victorian house
Before shot of the old new extension and the Victorian house showing bolted plate that was used to retain the wall which had fallen away from the building due to subsidence/settling of the foundation
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Surveying the site

Foundations are not level
Evidence of subsidence/settling of the footing
Kitchen ceiling is not level - evidence of subsidence
Evidence of subsidence - bathroom is not level by 60mm, serious evidence of historical subsidence
First floor - the level shows that the house had fallen away by about 60mm, we would have to allow for this when ordering the steel and refurbishing the bathroom so that the final product is level
Door casings and doors show evidence of subsidence
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Digging out footings

Large 1400mm square cutout for the steel goalposts going in to support the first floor structure
Acro supporting first floor in place while the footings are dug
Footings dug out and acro put in place to support steel above while we knock the side wall out
Footings
Footings
Shutter to close off, ready for pouring footings
Measuring for oversight
Footings dug