Day 147 - Still Life with polystyrene balls

Day 147 - More Frank

He's doing a grand job - the walls feel silky smooth
 
 


Insulation in the main bathroom
 

Day 146 - Meet Frank, our Plasterer

 
He's started in the new bedroom, Liam's room.


And here the plasterboard up in some of the other rooms, ready to be plastered
 
 
 

Day 146 - Electrics

 

 
Ern and Terry pore over the plans

 

And all over the house the cables start to go in...

Day 146 - Bathroom Planning

 
We plan out where the bath will be


And our great recess above the bath, built by Steve. Plan is for glass shelves to hold gorgeous potions...

Day 140 - Roof Leak

We sprang a leak - A combination of all the rain we've been having and the lack of ceilings meant there was water dripping into the bathroom.
 


It seems to be coming from some existing pipework in the loft. We'll get Shaun to check it out...

Day 140 - Electrician & Studwork

 
The electrician has started....

 
The studwork frames are mostly up

 

 

 

 

The boys thought they were fun to run through

 

 
These are the pipes for the underfloor heating, currently in the middle of our new bedroom cupboard, but will be more to the right and boxed in.

Day 139 - Update

Shaun's dog - Biscuit
 
 
New floor in the hall

 
And utility room


The holes in the wall are where the cavity wall insulation has been pumped through

Day 133 - Electrical Plans

After a fun, but hectic, weekend away in Birmingham and Sheffield and before Ern jetted off to Amsterdam we had to draw up and confirm the electrical plans as the electrician arrives tmrw!

 
 

As you can see, they're pretty complex. We're having ethernet for internet and telephone throughout the house and wanted to dramatically increase the number of plug sockets. I counted up the sockets I was using in my old study - 26! And that's not even considering the lighting - phew!

Day 132 - Bedroom Windows

Here's the new high-level window in the master bedroom - the obscured glass will come later

 

And here are our lovely french windows. So excited about these and how nice they'll be in the summer.

 

I also took a pic from the outside looking back at the doors. I won't be able to do this again as we'll have a juliette balcony in front of the doors. Unfortunately we're not allowed to use the flat roof as a balcony as it overlooks next door's garden.

 

 
Here's the view from the french windows, pretty nice apart from the blue plastic on the flat roof!


And the view from Liam's room

Day 132 - We have ceilings!

 

 

These are a bit dark but we now have ceilings again upstairs!

 

And this neat collection of pipes is for the upstairs under-floor heating. At the moment it's in the middle of the new floor but hopefully it'll end up inside a cupboard

Day 132 - UFH & Plumbing

The underfloor heating is also complete in the new lounge

 



and the connections are in the storeroom

Day 131 - Windows are in!

 
 
 


Some still need to have the glass changed for obscure glass and the builders have asked to leave the french doors out for the moment to make things easier for them.

We're very pleased with the windows, they're very sleek, just what we wanted.

Day 127 - Underfloor Heating installation

While the windows are being fitted downstairs, the underfloor heating installation has started upstairs.

The shallow trays that will hold the pipes are being laid between the new batons that have been laid on the joists

 


Here's what it looks like from below

Day 127 - Busy, busy day

Today is a very busy day at the property. Henry & Sons are in fitting the windows downstairs, the plumber is laying the trays for the underfloor heating upstairs, the builders are starting on the flat roof over the lounge and we met with the architect to go through all the changes we've made so we can get some updated drawings - phew!

Day 127 - Windows being fitted

Exciting! - The windows are being fitted by Henry & Sons over the next 3 days

 
 

 

They seem to be fitting the frames in first (with a fair amount of pushing and shoving) 



And then will add the glass in afterwards...

Even the trickle vents don't look so bad.