From a distance, it’s difficult to keep track of progress, just as it’s difficult to speed things up. Our Cape Town builder sent us a couple of photographs this past week which do show some activity. The pool looks almost ready for filling. It will be a relief to get that ungainly water-bag (in the right hand top corner of the third picture) off the patio.
It’s good to get an idea of how much more accessible the pool will seem, raised to almost the height of the patio.
At last, building has started on the small, new bathroom. As this is the only part of the renovation which will be visible from the outside and which will alter the ‘outline’ of the house, I’ve been anxious to see it take shape.
It is above this tiled roof that the new ensuite shower room is being built.
Below are two pictures showing brickwork finally going up. Because concrete slabs were needed for both the floor and roof of this bathroom, we needed planning approval.
The picture above shows the new bathroom window looking south towards the street.
I hope the next batch of photographs will show some internal bathroom progress. My next ‘site visit’ is scheduled for April. Perhaps I’ll be able to speed things up a bit.
home-in-the-making 