The components of the oak stair to the mezzanine are precut, and then built in place from the bottom, each riser hung from the trimmer of the floor above.
Meanwhile, with only weeks before the moving date, things have to move a bit faster. the table saw and dust extract have to move into the basement hall....
... so that the joists for the studio can be laid and blocked up to level.
The stair down to the 'sous sol' gets a finished handrail and newel post...
...and the guest bedroom door and duct a stain and coat of paint.
Then on Friday morning Didier from Ets. Faye arrives to finish the drive.
He fills the dips left by trenches, scrapes it all flat, rolls it...
...then brings a lorry load of 'drain gravel' and spreads and levels it...
...finally leaving it flat and rolled.
The stair climbs slowly up the wall...
... the structure having to be worked out as I go.
This week has been quite warm, and the sun is higher and stronger, and no heating is needed.
A few days later John comes one afternoon with his little digger to make a drain to get the rain water from the garage roof into the cistern...
...picking up the downpipe from the greenhouse and 'auvent' roof.
Margaret gives the pine louvre doors 2 coats of water based varnish. These will be in the 'lingerie' corridor and hiding the back of the Godin wood burning boiler, but allowing the warm air to circulate.
By the end of a week the stair is nearly done...
...leaving the most fiddly bits at the top to be fitted.