Ready for scaffold drop!

Hope everyone had a great festive break. Our builders certainly took one with nothing happening at the build between Dec 19th and Jan 17th - pretty much a month, but that's to be expected at this time of year.

Happily, since the 17th, we've seen a few things happen. The first trade back to site was the tiling team, who came and screeded our master ensuite, the kids bathroom and the balcony. The next week, it was the rendering team, who first applied a paint sealer to all our external walls before coming back the next day to apply the acrylic render texture coat to the whole outside of the upper floor. At the same time, the tiling team came back and applied the waterproofing to the ensuite & kids bathroom. The painting team then reappeared to finish painting all the eaves of the house. The upstairs is really looking great!

Best as we can tell, there's nothing left that requires the scaffolding, perhaps just the drain down pipes, so hopefully we see the scaffolding dropped so work can start on the lower floor. At this point, the build looks like a house (upper floor) has been built on top of a construction site (ground floor). 

We're excited to be moving to the ground floor part of the build. The upper floor is more of our "sleeping" zone of the house, while the ground floor is where we're going to do our living, so it will be great to see that start to come together.