The best improvement

The best improvement since we moved in, is no doubt, the ensuite.

Very roomy with lots of cupboard for storage, which was lacking in the house.

Sven started mid May with connecting the plumbing.

Sewer line

Plumbing

Then came the form setting for the slab, which was poured ten days later.

Concreting the slab

Slab almost completed

A week after, the framing for the walls started going up complete with cyclone rods . 

Then the water pipes connected,  the shower sill, the inside walls. 

The roof and ceiling came up next, the electricity connected.

Framing the walls

Roof is on

Water connected

It was time to cut the wall from the bedroom. Cutting is not really the word, maybe smashing the besser blocks? (which is not for the faint hearted)! 

He carefully removed the window and re-installed it on the outside wall of the ensuite, put a gutter up and the fascia board.

Wall cut, window re-fitted

 

Then the vanity was installed, the toilet was connected, the shower and the floor tiled… 

We then had a functional ensuite only a month after he started and working on it all by himself!

All the "little" finishing touches came later, grouting ,window framing,  plastering, sanding, painting and I probably miss a lot of things. But we both agree it was all worth it.

Tiling

Grouting

The washing machine was moved from the patio to the ensuite where it now lives. I always feared that a green frog would enter it and get washed out...

At last an ensuite!

All finished

Very practical

I have to add that at the same time he started on the ensuite, he also worked  with erecting another shed, next to the existing one.  

Spot prepared for shed

Shed erected

Concreting the shed floor

For those of you who know how much bits and pieces he collected over the years, this shed came very handy, it is now full!

But a lot of these "bits and pieces" came very handy and were recycled in the building of the ensuite.

Shed completed

The original shed now has a twin brother...

You might wonder where was I while all this was going on? 

Well, I was nursing a nasty skin cancer surgery (which is still in the healing process). So apart from helping him every now and again when he needed an extra hand to hold things, (which wasn't very often), I was snapping pictures… But don't worry, I won't upset you with pictures of my wound...

I was also sewing curtains, emptying boxes after boxes, moving furniture from one place to the other, cooking, cleaning... oh well, doing things that a woman should do after all!

I think I've found another name for Sven... 

Instead of Viking I'll call him "Hercules". Very befitting don't you think?

Viking / Hercules