I started off taking pictures of our house as they were building it. Then the scaffolding came to obscure my view.
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| In this pictues, you can see where they added an airtightness sheet around the upstairs floor, which becomes very difficult to make airtight after the walls have gone in, if your airtight layer is inside the structure. |
Then they started covering the scaffolding with sheets.
This happened all around the house.
Other, greater buildings are blighted with scaffolding. Here is an old building in Athens which I believe Victorian engineers tried very hard to "repair" by straightening all the lines on the structure. It turns out it had been carefully designed with non-straight lines so that it would look right.
I remember visiting Tokyo Disneyland and seeing the centrepiece, Cinderella Castle, surrounded with scaffolding, which had been carefully covered with sheets depicting the castle. I wasn't sure whether this made the building seem more real or more fake.
Here is another view of our house.
