The view from the other side room. With the wall going, the door on the left is redundant.

  With the stairway cut to pieces and removed, and the roof supports installed, the wall came out;

Peter and Toc having lunch on the beam to support the floor in place of the brick wall.

As the bricks came out of the wall, they were 'processed' by Susanna and myself and second hand bricks became third hand bricks.

  Above, stacked about twice as much as we needed to fill in the hole left by the door. Below, the scaring left by the wall and some cleaning up of electrical wiring, the roof supports have now been removed. The wall came out on and the beam went in on the Saturday.

Toc chieselling the channels for burying the electrical wiring, note the beam now installed.

Toc fixing up the wiring on the main light.

Removing the door bricks proved extemely dusty and hence the blue tarp. We had to use a grinder as we keep on damaging bricks while trying to remove them.

Andreas had turned up on Sunday and had the job of removing the door frame and bricks.

Once removed, the small stairs under the door had to go as well and joists cleaned up. Then bricking up the door could begin, Toc shows us how.

And on Monday, I started laying the bricks.

At a pace 10 times slower than a professional, . . . it is 11pm when I get the last brick in . . . below,

The view from inside, note that Peter has already replaced the railings;