Question: is a part of a building still called an extension if there was something there before it" I’ve been mulling this over because I’ve been automatically referring to our new dining room as an extension but is it" We’ve demolished one thing (a weird, shoddily-constructed annexe) and we’re building something bigger and completely different in its place, so what’s the term for that"
Nobody" Let’s just stick to extension then.
I thought it was about time I updated you on the building work that’s happening at home – I feel as though I’ve been rather slack on this front. The truth is that it hasn’t really been on my mind; it’s almost like the whole thing is happening to someone else. I hear bangings and drillings behind the kitchen wall and I almost break my neck tripping over various temporary pipelines when I go up the hill to put the chickens to bed, but apart from that, no disruption at all. Back of house before work began…
Apart from financially, of course. Because there’s nothing more financially disrupting than having building work done. It’s worse than buying the house in the first place. At least when you buy something it’s a fixed price; with building, you never know what’s going to crop up and make you weep hot tears over your online banking screen. Buried pipes, walls hiding ancient skeletons, rafters sheltering bats. (I don’t have bats or...