Day 242 - New Stairs

I know they don't *look* very different but they have all been updated. Thanks to the underfloor heating we put in upstairs the whole upstairs floor level is 20-30mm higher than it was which meant the stairs finished with a bigger last step up. This isn't allowed by building controls, our brains do complicated things with steps and get confused if steps are uneven so we've had to have them all changed so each step has the same rise.

We're also now replacing the seventies style banisters and rails. Originally we'd planned to keep them, I quite liked their retro styling, but they just look out of place now everything else has been updated so I've ordered some oak stop chamfer style ones to replace them.

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 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 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!