Well everyone, I bet you thought the loft extension was nothing more than pie in the sky and a figment of Mike's imagination. So did I.

However after struggling with the vagaries of all the planning rules and regulations ( thank goodness we didn't need a civil engineer when we built the house 35 years ago, he'd have hated when the roof took off 3 feet towards the road in a gale), and the sheer nastiness and humiliation of RBS who refused us a mini mortgage, we're off!! Took a whole Sunday morning to psych ourselves up to take the slates off , and the insulation under them (very messy ICI U-foam plus pumped in - weren't we ahead of our time), the thing has finally got started. Loads more photos and hopefully not much chat ahead.