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| Plumbing nirvana | The copper piping for the heating system is now alomst complete. Its fairly complex with multiple connections across 4 different pipe diameters sizes. In total 18m of copper tubing has been used and over 50 elbows , T's and compression fittings.
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:11:00 GMT |
| First plaster downstairs | We're now doing the first coat of fast set plaster downstairs. You can see the ceiling and wall joints on the picture below. you can also see the small area that the heat pump plumbing is having to fit into.
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:16:00 GMT |
| Final walls completed | The last of the stud walls went in so all the rooms are now complete. The last to be done was the utility room and downstairs bathroom.
Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:57:00 GMT |
| Plumbing in the heat pump | Started to plumb in the heat pump. Picture shows detail from top of pump. With the mains water connection. A thing of beauty.
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:55:00 GMT |
| Heat pump plumbing starts | A large mass of copper and brass bit has now been gathered together all that remain is their assembly. 1 heat pump, 1 buffer tank, 2 expansion tanks, 2 pumps, 1 levelling vessel, 3 tundishes, 8 valves.
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:16:00 GMT |
| First Painting done | We painted the smallest room to see what it looked like after our plastering. Not bad but next time we'll sand in bright light.
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:19:00 GMT |
| Plumbing runs | The H & C water and the radiator runs are being placed in the eaves to be covered over. The runs are straightforward but they all need lagged as they are effectivley on the outside of the house, outside the insulation.
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:28:00 GMT |
| Manifold adjustment | This is what happens when manifolds go in the wrong place. In this case it was 150mm out but the 'adjustment' still needed a week of concrete chipping to get in on the right side of the partition. Ho hum.
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:24:00 GMT |
| Heat pump positioning | The heat pump has been moved to its final location. It may look the size of a fridge but it's a lot heavier. Also this weekend the 100 litre buffer tank was connected and the manifold (this time on the right side of the wall) was hooked up again. The subsequent pressure test failed.
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:20:00 GMT |
| Plumbing | The 4x22mm pipe runs for the plumbing are being run along the bay. The soil pipes are also being added in. All pipes need to be insualted as this part of the house will be on the outside of the insulated section.
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:16:00 GMT |
| Taping and filling | The main fast set plaster has been completed upstairs and now its onto the second finish coat of readymix. The whole upstairs seems to be made up of corners.
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:43:00 GMT |
| Stairs are in | Shame about the manifold
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:19:00 GMT |
| Plastering | Took delivery of the heat pump and coils. Taping and filling in progress upstairs. Cut out larger stairwell.
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:10:00 GMT |
| Winter wonderland | We had snow so we went sledging rather than building
Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:06:00 GMT |
| Dry walling upstairs | The dry walling for the 2 bedrooms and bathroom upstairs is finshed. There's also a built in cupboard around the flue. Next up is taping and filling.
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
| Stud walling for upstairs bedrooms | The framing is in for the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:58:00 GMT |
| Plasterboard upstairs | The palster board has been put in upstairs except for the ingoes.
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:27:00 GMT |
| Flue fitting for stove | A busy weekend. The upstairs waste pipe and vent stack was fitted and the insulation was finshed on both upstairs gables. The selkirk flue was also installed from roof to above where the stove will go. The scaffolding on the southside was taken down.
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:12:00 GMT |
| Lead flashing on roof finshed | The lead flashing was put on the roof today and the final line of slates stuck down. It was so cold that a blow torch was needed just to make the lead malleable. 10 slates have been blown off since the slating was completed, the ones that were found were used once more. The completed ridge line should stop them blowing off again.
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:18:00 GMT |
| Putting in insulation upstairs | We've been putting in 100mm of Insulation upstairs
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:21:00 GMT |
| Insulation arrives | Kingspan 100mm, glass wool and plaster board all arrive on a dry day and are shipped indoors, ready for upstairs.
Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:12:00 GMT |
| Wind and watertight party | A year on from moving to the caravan and we have a wind and watertight party, with chilli and soup and indoor football. Later there was dancing. Next time we'll wait till the insulation is in.
Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:07:00 GMT |
| First fit electrics | The roughing out of the electric cabling in the ceilings and wall spaces is no complete. Dwangs are in place to support the sockets and switches
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT |
| Windows in! | Exactly a year since the caravan arrived on site and the house is wind and watertight. The windows and doors were all put in in a day and are very heavy. The glass is all impact resistant low-E.
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:44:00 GMT |
| Upstairs dwangs finished | The dwangs for attaching the plasterboard are now all in upstairs in walls roof and combs. There are 17 dwangs for each bay so it took a while.
Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:55:00 GMT |
| Upper floor in | The 22mm chipboard span flooring is now in on the top floor. Its mainly dry unless it gets windy.
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:07:00 GMT |
| Roof dwangs complete | The internal bracing has now been removed from the internals. The bridling is in for the stairs and dwangs for the platerboard have been nailied into the roof trusses.
Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:39:00 GMT |
| Slates finished | The roof is now fully slated and is only waiting on the lead ridge line
Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:36:00 GMT |
| North side slating complete | Norman has finished the slating on the north side of the roof. This is the more complex side as it features 4 veluxes a vent and the flue cowl.
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:40:00 GMT |
| Roof slating starting | The scaffolding went up yesterday and today Norman has started with the first 10 rows of spanish slates. Gus also finished the smooth render on the last (South) wall. Luckily the rain stayed off so its all cured without marking.
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:05:00 GMT |
| Velux in the roof | Seven veluxes have now been installed in the roof. Nice day for it.
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:24:00 GMT |
| Smooth render on gable end | A short spell between the showers has enabled Gus to do the first first smooth render finish. It looks great and should be easy to paint.
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:38:00 GMT |
| Slate work | 3800 slates have arrived. They need graded and 2 holes punched in each one. That will take a while.
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:47:00 GMT |
| Scratch coat goes onto gable | The scratch coat is now on one gable ready for the render.
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:48:00 GMT |
| Gable end window | The block work is now up to the level of the gable end window
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:56:00 GMT |
| Lintels on door and smaller windows | The concrete lintels have now been added to all of the smaller doors and windows. Torrential rain last night again.
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:00 GMT |
| Roofing felt in place and battened down | The roof has now been felted and is wating for the slates. If it wasn't for the veluxes it would be dry inside. Swallow are roosting in the rafters. No block work today, 20mm of rain overnight.
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:37:00 GMT |
| Block work going up | The block work is now copmpleted to head height and the house successfully stayed up during a bad summer gale.
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:42:00 GMT |
| Sarking and soffits completed | The sarking is now on. The velux windows have increased from 4 to 7 and the soffits are in place and painted.
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:06:00 GMT |
| Sarking | The roof is starting to take shape with the sarking being added on. You can see the holes for the velux
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:38:00 GMT |
| Now with added gables | The gables with their eaves have been added along with the bridles for the velux windows in the roof. And it's still dry...
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:03:00 GMT |
| Walls and roof trusses on | The walls, compound beams and roof trusses are now on. It looks like a house.
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:53:00 GMT |
| Walls and gables | All the structural timber and walls are now on the site and built. The gables are being made today with the lintels being added later out of c25. Roof trusses got delivered also.
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:49:00 GMT |
| The first walls | The wall sections with their vapour proof membrane have started to arrive on site.
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:00 GMT |
| Floor set |
Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:46:00 GMT
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| Floor pour | 9 cubic metres is used for the pour. Neil Robbie and Gus are here smoothing it off with wooden and steel floats. The phots is 2 hours after the pour and you can walk on it in 5. It will take ~6 month to full go off.
Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:43:00 GMT |
| Pressure testing | The manifold has been filled and pressure tested so the pipes are then lifted on spacers so they site within the screed.
Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:41:00 GMT |
| Heating manifold | Each heating circuit is piped back into the manifold prior to pressure testing. The midges were very bad.
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:39:00 GMT |
| Laying the underfloor heating | This will be a structural slab of 10 cm reninforced concrete. There are 600m of heating pipe to be layed in 7 circuits tie wrapped every 40cm.
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:56:00 GMT |
| Kitty inspection |
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:55:00 GMT
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| Reinforcing | Then steel reinforcing mesh is added to stop it blowing away.
Then it rains
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:53:00 GMT |
| Next layer | Next its the DPC and 10cm of insulation. Is that rain on the horizon?
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:51:00 GMT |
| Tea break |
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:50:00 GMT
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| Further flattening | The interior floor is further flattened and leveled with crusher dust and a viabration plate. Thats uncle Norman on the job
Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:46:00 GMT |
| Flattening the floor | The interior is first leveled using the exisiting pan and then flattened via a vibration plate. The soil pipe, waste fittings and rodding points have already been buries and drilled through the walls.
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:43:00 GMT |
| Block work footings complete | Feline inspection of single thickness block work footings. This is the interior wall
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:41:00 GMT |
| Sand delivery | This is the sand getting delivered for the block work. Nightmare midgie night.
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:35:00 GMT |
| Blocks delivery | The survey posts are in and the block levels are set. Blocks have also been delivered.
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:27:00 GMT |
| Foundation readymix | The founds are poured from ready mix and flattened out manually
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:24:00 GMT |
| Trenching in |
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:21:00 GMT
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| Initial inspection |
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:20:00 GMT
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| Foundations! | Johnnie Skipper starts to dig the neatest trench on Skye
Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:17:00 GMT |
| Lining out | The new house outline is lined out on the pad
Thu, 31 May 2007 11:07:00 GMT |
| Sun comes out | The cat is actual size
Thu, 17 May 2007 11:04:00 GMT |
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