Kitchen Floor

The first stage of concreting for the kitchen/dining room floor (and the terrace) has been completed.

There will be another 15cm or so of concrete on top of this -- through which pipe conduits and the like will run -- but this gives a pretty good idea of what this part of the house is going to be like.

The reinforcing bars you can see mark the corner column of the kitchen/dining room. The brick structure to the right is the store room under the new first-floor porch. The terrace area (from which the photo was taken) extends around the "back" of the kitchen to the porch. (By "back", I mean the north side of the house away from the road, but in fact the "front" door will be on this side of the house!) You can see the large door leading from the old stone part of the house to the kitchen/dining room, and also the hole to its left where the stone stairs go down to the ground floor.

Above is the floor slab at a slightly earlier stage, when half of the concrete had been poured over the structure of concrete joists and blocks.