Day 112 - The stairs arrive

Just as we hoped, the staircase arrived today along with the smaller steps for the garage hallway. A bit of planning is needed before the main oak staircase can be installed, but the wood looks really good & well finished. The smaller 3-step stairs have been installed from the garage hallway into the workroom. These are really neat. Both sets of stairs were made locally by Strachan's in Stonehaven.
Joiners have been busy today and have completed the wardrobe internals in the guest room and mostly completed the hallway cupboard. New plasterboard was also installed in the laundry and the back door surround fitted. As well as that a start was made to laying the maple flooring in Wendy's workroom. Once this is done the skirtings & door facings can be installed prior to painting.
There was also a fair bit of cementing completed today with render going on outside at the front & rear, along with some further cementing work in both the garage (round the windows) and in the garage hallway (down at floor level).
The architect was here today too, as planned, and we got some agreements for how the graded the area towards the new back door will look. Some additional work is required to the DPC at the back door area, but this was expected.