Photos from the terrace

The deconstruction of the terrace is almost done now we are starting on the reconstruction; the eight sided cupola has had the windows and grilles removed for renovation and polishing. The terrace walls have been resized or lowered and had old plaster chipped away and new coat applied and the floor is almost ready for zellige man.
The top terraces are now getting stripped and the laundry room is to be a new build on the terrace with interior stairway to top terrace; a recent innovation from Bacalli the foreman to save space that would have been taken up by exterior stairs.
You can see the vent from the old chimney at the back of the terrace bedroom on the last picture. This will be kept and incorporated into the laundry room on the terrace as its a lovely feature; beyond that is the airwell that goes down 5 floors to the basement creating a lovely airflow around the house.
Its been a busy few days with the craftsmen; the electricians fitting the new boxes on the outside of house before Radeef come to reset them and approve the works. Also ADER FES have been around to give their seal of approval to the work so far; its good for the house to have all this critical control as shoddy worked will NOT be passed as acceptable.
Took Baccali to Cybercafe to show him the blogsite and ended up creating one for his company while we were there he seemed to get his head round the concept pretty quickly.
More and more of the local traders and people in the area starting to take a real interest in the house now especially as half of them have almost been hit with flying masonry if they stand in the wrong spot. Lots of guided tours through the rubble to anyone showing interest trying to dodge sleeping tortoises; frisky kittens and pools of cement at various stages.
As I keep saying its all taking shape at least in my head and when the next batch of visitors come in a few weeks or months it will be well on its way to being the beautiful old lady she was once before; bless her.