Sinkholes have been in the news a lot lately and seeing the damage caused to homes is just devastating so.......

when we discovered we couldn't open or close the upstairs windows on the left side front of our house we decided it was time to get our 'sinking' problem fixed by professionals.

A month, and $30,000 later, the house has been successfully underpinned, the cracks all closed up and all windows now working properly but part of the service is for damaged bricks to be removed and replaced so. thinking again, we decided to have two windows installed in my downstairs sewing room, which, until now was windowless, wall less and door less, in fact it is just a big empty void with unlined brick external walls and unlined ceiling,
Now some of that is about to change and give hubby a starting point for making my sewing space into a much nicer place.
I will definitely add after photo's but it will take months before Ray completes all the work required.
Photo 1, walking into my sewing space, note the breather holes top and bottom in the brickwork, these go all the way round the outside letting in dust, cold and creepys, ieuwww!
Photo 2 'inside' the space
Photo 3 looking up at 'the ceiling', this is the only lighting in the space except for my desk lamps
Photo 4 facing to the right
Photo 5 & 6 looking back toward the entry into the space, and at the ceiling. there is a very poorly built, unfinished room there that houses a toilet. Note the power board hanging down from the ceiling, the ONLY power point is on the right side wall and I have extension leads strung up along the ceiling.
Photos 7 & 8, coming full circle looking to the left of the entry way, these are the old wardrobes I use as a wall to separate my 'space' from the garage and Ray's work room.
I will add more pics later as the Underpinner team started repairing the brickwork and installing the windows today. YEEHAH!!!