Works on the foundations this past summer - Part 3

This is the last post so you can breath a sigh of relief!

The house is starting to resemble Frankenstein's monster! These openings were mortared in with a special mortar - the plan is they leave it like this for 18 months - 2 years to see if there is any more movement/cracking. If there isn't, then the walls can be repaired and the facade painting can begin, and the bedroom cracks repaired and repainted. No idea what happens if any more cracks appear!

The path was repaired - though I am a bit peeved that that middle section is sticking out - the stones should have been laid with long straight ends on the path edge. Oh well.

We had planned to sow grass seed this autumn, but after heavy rain at the end of August some grass and loads of weeds grew back and filled in the gaps! At least weeds are green.

K has since added more gravel up to the level of the path and I can put plants in pots there next summer to make it look a bit more interesting.

What work? You would never know anything had happened here, apart from the Frankenstein's monster look all over the facade (as some wisecrack on facebook likened the 'scars' to!).

Back to normal. Ish.

The old step had to be moved to lay the concrete and the guys made us some new steps - much better as the previous one was just one tall step which was hard work on my knees, and now I have two steps! K has since painted them.

I really thought that the cats might have been peturbed by all the noise and disturbance going on but they seem to have just totally ignored it all - this is how they spent most of the hot summer, shagged out on the tiles!

I brought my potting tidy upstairs so I could do some repotting this summer, and Harry thought it made a nice cat basket!

What a daft boy!

That thankfully is the end of that, until the parts of the walls that were opened up get repaired and the facade painted in about 18 months time. I just hope nothing more cracks and that the foundation work was successful! I've noticed that the cracks in our bedroom didn't open wider this summer like they normally do, so that is a good sign!