Here's a quick walk around the ground floor
Showing posts with label appliances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appliances. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Post Easter Update
Well, not enough has happened....
We have a plastered and skimmed upstairs hallway, and the big cupboard on the landing (which forms one side of the bath alcove) has been built and boarded ready for skimming; the washing machine is finally plumbed in - no more trips to the launderette.... - but that's it. No kitchen, still a room full of tools and still a huge list of little things to 'finish off' everywhere.
We have booked the flooring contractor for the 7th April to lay the Amtico downstairs. The only issue is really the cupboard in front of the UFH manifold, but we can allow for that if we have to. There are still a couple of holes in the floor where the old electric meter was and some little gaps near the walls in a couple of places but they won't take long.
What is annoying is the pace - we are so close now, but it is taking forever. The fridge got unpacked yesterday and the the gap was plasterboarded so once that is skimmed the fridge can go in - but the plug might not be live so we still may not be able to use it.
On the good news, the bathroom tiles should be in today or tomorrow so they should start tiling next week with a bit of luck.....
We have a plastered and skimmed upstairs hallway, and the big cupboard on the landing (which forms one side of the bath alcove) has been built and boarded ready for skimming; the washing machine is finally plumbed in - no more trips to the launderette.... - but that's it. No kitchen, still a room full of tools and still a huge list of little things to 'finish off' everywhere.
We have booked the flooring contractor for the 7th April to lay the Amtico downstairs. The only issue is really the cupboard in front of the UFH manifold, but we can allow for that if we have to. There are still a couple of holes in the floor where the old electric meter was and some little gaps near the walls in a couple of places but they won't take long.
What is annoying is the pace - we are so close now, but it is taking forever. The fridge got unpacked yesterday and the the gap was plasterboarded so once that is skimmed the fridge can go in - but the plug might not be live so we still may not be able to use it.
On the good news, the bathroom tiles should be in today or tomorrow so they should start tiling next week with a bit of luck.....
Monday, 17 March 2008
Heating controls
Been a mixed week. The bath surround has almost been completed - just waiting for the tiles to be delivered now. Some plastering in the snug - once that's been skimmed, it will be ready for decorating. The kids room is still the tool store so no chance to decorate yet. The rear hall now has skirting boards so a few bits of plastic trim around the windows and the radiator and that's done (plus another coat of paint!). The light is up and (I think) it just needs the circuit breaking closing to make it work. The utility needs the door panel fitting, the radiator and the tiling round the sink then it's time for the washing machine, drier and fridge and the units.
The big thing this weekend was the thermostats came on-line! We now have control of the heating downstairs, and even after one day it's better. With UFH you don't turn it on and off, you 'set it back' - ie. turn it down - overnight. So we are running the main room at 22 degrees from 6am to 10.30pm and 16 degrees overnight. The thermostats take care of warming up and cooling down so the room should be at the chosen temp at the chosen time. This morning it was 20 degrees at 6am so tomorrow it will switch on earlier!
The controls come from Heatmiser in Darwen, Lancs.... very swish they are too!
Parlo ripped the landing apart yesterday taking out the old bathroom doorway to keep the ceiling level throughout the landing. He started plasterboarding as well so that should be boarded and ready for skimming today (?). Hopefully they will get on with the raidators today but the plumber has gone AWOL at the moment. And, yet again, we are waiting for the sparky's next visit...... Still plenty to do, but nothing that should hold the build up now.... apart from the isolator switch bank for the appliances, which all have their own fused spur anyway, it's mainly fittings now - switches, lights, etc.....
Ah.... the ensuite. Although we had success with one lot of UFH, the en-suite Walkwarm system failed to start. We are waiting to find out what's wrong. Worst case is the ribbon of wire was damaged, in which case the tiles will have to come up..... so we're going to wait until the bathroom is ready before we even think about that.
The big thing this weekend was the thermostats came on-line! We now have control of the heating downstairs, and even after one day it's better. With UFH you don't turn it on and off, you 'set it back' - ie. turn it down - overnight. So we are running the main room at 22 degrees from 6am to 10.30pm and 16 degrees overnight. The thermostats take care of warming up and cooling down so the room should be at the chosen temp at the chosen time. This morning it was 20 degrees at 6am so tomorrow it will switch on earlier!
The controls come from Heatmiser in Darwen, Lancs.... very swish they are too!
Parlo ripped the landing apart yesterday taking out the old bathroom doorway to keep the ceiling level throughout the landing. He started plasterboarding as well so that should be boarded and ready for skimming today (?). Hopefully they will get on with the raidators today but the plumber has gone AWOL at the moment. And, yet again, we are waiting for the sparky's next visit...... Still plenty to do, but nothing that should hold the build up now.... apart from the isolator switch bank for the appliances, which all have their own fused spur anyway, it's mainly fittings now - switches, lights, etc.....
Ah.... the ensuite. Although we had success with one lot of UFH, the en-suite Walkwarm system failed to start. We are waiting to find out what's wrong. Worst case is the ribbon of wire was damaged, in which case the tiles will have to come up..... so we're going to wait until the bathroom is ready before we even think about that.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Small things and big things...
On the small things front, we now have a door on the ensuite (albeit with no architrave yet). Some of the block work in the rear hall has been removed as Geoff wasn't happy it was up to scratch and one of the doors on the kids' room cupboard is on.
On the bigger front the worktops were ordered yesterday for (hopefully) friday delivery. These include 2 holes for popup-power sockets from Evoline and 7 of those little metal bars for hot pans. We will unfortunately have one join on the hob run, but since that is a 3.5m run and the end which will be joined is a 90cm corner unit I suppose that is not such a surprise. The island will be a single piece though - 2.6m x 90cm, a BIG slab of 'nero absoluto' granite....
Gary the sparky has finally phoned in - he had tonsilitis so not only coudl he not come, but i expect he couldn't speak to call us either..... perhaps someone needs to show him SMS :-) He has sworn blind he and a friend will be here this weekend so we should come back to a very different lounge on monday - worktops, appliances, sockets and switches. We have decided to delay the light fittings and flooring until there is no heavy work going on, but the vast majority of the fixtures will be in place.
On the bigger front the worktops were ordered yesterday for (hopefully) friday delivery. These include 2 holes for popup-power sockets from Evoline and 7 of those little metal bars for hot pans. We will unfortunately have one join on the hob run, but since that is a 3.5m run and the end which will be joined is a 90cm corner unit I suppose that is not such a surprise. The island will be a single piece though - 2.6m x 90cm, a BIG slab of 'nero absoluto' granite....
Gary the sparky has finally phoned in - he had tonsilitis so not only coudl he not come, but i expect he couldn't speak to call us either..... perhaps someone needs to show him SMS :-) He has sworn blind he and a friend will be here this weekend so we should come back to a very different lounge on monday - worktops, appliances, sockets and switches. We have decided to delay the light fittings and flooring until there is no heavy work going on, but the vast majority of the fixtures will be in place.
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