Garage from HELL

Our garage has been our go to dumping ground since we moved into our house, it has wood and tools and things for the car, sledges and bikes and other things one might expect of a dumping ground, like children's toys too large to go anywhere else (and long forgotten once entering the land of no return). It also has things one would not expect of a garage, like doors (internal and external), a fridge freezer, random bits of pipe and odd tiles (why would we keep them, I don't even know their origin, don't know where we would use them and have no intention of doing so) also, I would be amiss not to mention, the old pedal bin and exercise weights. 

As you can gather there was no organisation. No system. And unfortunately no way round not emptying and finding homes for all the delights in there!

We were full steam ahead in knocking down the detached garage this month and clearing the rubble to make way for our new extension once the charming, nice, kind, and no doubt attractive, Planning Officer has approved it. (I am assuming here, as we have never met, but surely all the Planning Department employees are a sheer delight and love making hopefuls like myself, dreams come true.)

After many trips to the tip, a car full to bursting with belongings we either forgot we had or forgot why we had them, and countless journeys up and down to the loft, we finally got this lot cleared....

(Yes, I know! And the first two pictures were after the car had already been loaded twice over!)

Next step was demolition!   Whoop Whoop!

We all pitched in, even our youngest son had a go...

Knocking down the garage was definitely the fun part. Clearing all the bricks afterward was not!

Two skips later, and ALOT of wheelbarrow work, we are left with the slab it was built on and the right wall, which we ('we'- really just Adam, my skilled husband) have strategically left up so Freddie, our Brittany Spaniel, does not get out and have fun and frolics elsewhere!

So, this is how it will remain until we do some ground work and start digging trenches for our very exciting foundations!

Much better, I'm sure you'll agree and was very therapeutic!

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