The scaffolders were here early this morning, as they need to remove all the ironwork from the house. A helicopter is coming to take away all the scrap wood and the rest of the stuff that the carpenters and the roofers have left behind. Here it comes.

The aircraft lands in the meadow below the house, and the crew jump out.

Frantic activity in the garden while the (very expensive) helicopter lurks in the background.

At last we can begin.

And bit by bit, the helicopter removed everything and took it down to the valley. By the time all that was finished the scaffolders had removed the remaining scaffolding, and Chalet Iltis is beginning to look more like a house and less like a construction site. Happy days.