Apologies for a lack of recent updates.  We now have a finish date of 30 March, just over 5 weeks away.  If you have been to the practice in the last week or so you will see the roof is on and most off the windows have been installed.  This makes a huge improvement to the exterior appearance.  Inside we have plumbers, plasterers and carpenters working.

The lift was installed last week, you can see it in some of the photographs.

The new front door is scheduled to be fitted on 8 March.  On that day we will have to ask patients to use the back door.  We will make sure it is well signposted.

New lift viewed from first floor

First floor admin offices

Last of the internal walls being built.  The doorway on the right will be the midwife and phlebotomy room

New waiting room

View from the waiting room, down the corridor towards the old back door, you can see the lift door on the left

Dr Wilcox's new room, roof and windows to be fitted

New consulting rooms being constructed in the former reception area

The new, wide corridor looking towards the rear of the building

New registrar room waiting to be plastered

New insulation

Former reception and waiting room, old front door is open

New registrar consulting room

New registrar's room on right, cleaner's cupboard and toilet

One of the new GP consulting rooms

New waiting room

Stripped out building, former front door on right of photo, looking towards the reception area

The Christmas break is over and the builders are back at work.  They are currently working on the new consulting rooms on the ground floor.  This has involved excavating new foundations, see previous posts, and building new sound proofed internal walls.  The wall that used to look out over the Christie Close side is also being removed once the steel work is in place.  Hopefully we can get the roof on before any bad weather.

Looking from the room Dr Wilcox used to use out to Christie Close. 

New floors in the original building

Top down view into new consulting rooms

We now have a fairly accurate finish date from the builders.  We hope to be finished by mid March.

Foundations

New foundations being dug inside the rear part of the surgery. This is the single storey part at the back, nearest the car park.  It is the original part of the building and dates back to 1971.  It is necessary to dig the foundations to support the new sound proof walls and solid floors.

Demolition

Phlebotomy and Dr Jones' rooms

Former disabled toilet

Dr Fox's old room

Looking down the old corridor towards the old fire exit

Old reception desk and heating system

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Phase 2

Our move last weekend went well.  We moved all appointments to the Windlesham branch surgery on Friday afternoon.  This allowed us to close the building.  Lightwater Removals moved the furniture for us, most of which has gone upstairs.  We spent Saturday moving the phone and computer servers to their new home.

We now have three consulting rooms on the ground floor.  These are mixed use at present but eventually will be used just by the practice nurses.  We are using two rooms on the first floor for consulting, this is just for the next 2 months.

The front ramp is in use and allows disabled access to the building for the first time in nearly 40 years!  We are waiting for a glass automatic door to be installed to complete the access improvements.  There is an identical ramp at the rear of the building to assist patients arriving by car.

There is still a lot of work to do, even in the part of the building we now occupy but we hope you get an idea of what it will look like.  Thank you for your patience so far!