What is under that carpet?

Under the carpet in the family room Rhiannon thought she had found tiles. I took a look and yes it looked ike they had carpeted over the tiles. So it was time to pull up the carpet and take a look.


So I started to pull it up. The dog gets in everything.


After a night of panic at the thought of chipping up more tiles it turned out to be lino.


Silly dog.

Finishing off the doorway.

The form work is in place ready for me to start applying the cement

Rhiannon tries her hand at rendering the wall.


The cement is in place.


After the cement dried I cut and added a piece of gyprock to each side of the door way.


This is the hall way side of the doorway.


Once the gryprock was in I started to fill in the gaps around the doorway.

The bar

We decided to remove the bar that we never used and reclaim some space in our lounge room.

The bar.


Almost ready to start removing bricks.


Half way there.


The bar is all gone now and the room cleaned up.

The modified doorway.

We decided to do away with the archway that lead into the kitchen and convert it into a standard door way. This meant cutting a groove into the brick work and inserting a steel lintel into the brick. This lintel is used to stop the roof  from falling in.
Once the lintel was in place I then cut away the bricks to leave the new doorway. I have to render the wall again and re-plaster where I have made the cuts. Now here are a few photos of the work so far.

 The marked out wall.


Rhiannon is about to start chipping away the plaster.


Some plaster removed.


All ready to start cutting the groove.


A closer view of the wall.


The lintel is in place and the two pieces of wood needed to bring the top of the door way down to the right height.