Farewell to the boiler

We're off! It's started! Tonight we visited the house to sign contracts and generally chat over how everything was going to run to find a skip outside the house and two lads busily throwing bits of the Burrow into it.

Pride of place in the skip was a mangled wreck of metal that, pieced together, bore a startling resemblance to our old boiler. Inside the house lay a pile of pipes and valves that once resided under our bath. The floor the lay on was devoid of laminate flooring, with the terrazzo laid bare. The old extension was a shell of its former self, windows being removed as we walked in.

As a window in the kitchen was removed a portion of the wall fell down, revealing that it never had a lintel. Truly it was a really crappy extension, and its demise couldn't come too soon.

Latest estimates show the work completing on 19 September. Boiler gone, contracts signed, here we go!