No photos as its all but finished and we have dates for the scaffolding coming down and the final handover. You can then see the finished product. The inside will be ready before the outside so we are negotiating early access to help get around the log-jam of having to get No 10 ready for letting. We have to do some redecoration but need to clear out 30 years of accumulated 'stuff' first but nowhere to put it.
Tomorrow the Heat Recovery guy finishes and will give us a tutorial on how to make it work. The electricity is on with water to follow soon. This weekend once the builders have gone we will be in doing some minor finishing touches to save a bit of money - the flooring in the attic room, the curtain rails and curtains.
Later in September we will be starring in an Eco-homes event at our local Environmental Resource Centre www.stnicks.org.uk hopefully with the architect and builder too and in November there is special Passivhaus open event. Before then we will behaving a house warming party for family and friends but also for all the long-suffering neighbours who have had the road blocked by builders wagons and excavations
Thursday, 31 August 2017
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Nearly there?
Lots of progress and we now have our own set of keys so we can sneak in and take a look around when the builders go home. We don't want to get in the way as the finish line is in sight.
Outside the rendering to the sides and rear has been completed as well as the half of the front that will be covered with timber slats. The other half, brick now as the tiles were prohibitively expensive (and quite honestly we like it in brick better), is within inches of the eaves and looking really good. Jason is an ace bricklayer when he is not supervising all the other trades. The interior is coming on too with Peter laying the floor, hanging the cupboards and doors. The electrician has nearly finished and the bathrooms are fitted out and tiled.
We have decided to keep the paintwork off-white throughout as we have so much in the way of wall hangings and pictures we decided to hang them all first and then see if any extra colour was needed. Maybe not as the white and all the timber looks good already.
We blocked the road again as the mains electricity was connected and the meter goes in on Friday. Yesterday I got a letter from British Gas telling me their prices were going up! Since they will be paying us maybe I should warn them that our prices are going up too, though I am not sure it works like that. Our current 'green' supplier cant do Passivhaus installations though we could switch back as soon as we move in. But since they wont be getting any money from us I doubt if they will want us.
Next week the heat recovery system goes in.
Apart from making decisions we have been busy on the garden which we are doing ourselves We have laid the turf and once the scaffold is down we can start on the fencing and patio
Outside the rendering to the sides and rear has been completed as well as the half of the front that will be covered with timber slats. The other half, brick now as the tiles were prohibitively expensive (and quite honestly we like it in brick better), is within inches of the eaves and looking really good. Jason is an ace bricklayer when he is not supervising all the other trades. The interior is coming on too with Peter laying the floor, hanging the cupboards and doors. The electrician has nearly finished and the bathrooms are fitted out and tiled.
We have decided to keep the paintwork off-white throughout as we have so much in the way of wall hangings and pictures we decided to hang them all first and then see if any extra colour was needed. Maybe not as the white and all the timber looks good already.
We blocked the road again as the mains electricity was connected and the meter goes in on Friday. Yesterday I got a letter from British Gas telling me their prices were going up! Since they will be paying us maybe I should warn them that our prices are going up too, though I am not sure it works like that. Our current 'green' supplier cant do Passivhaus installations though we could switch back as soon as we move in. But since they wont be getting any money from us I doubt if they will want us.
Next week the heat recovery system goes in.
Apart from making decisions we have been busy on the garden which we are doing ourselves We have laid the turf and once the scaffold is down we can start on the fencing and patio
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