25/08/16
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It’s felt like a lot has been done over the last few weeks, but maybe not as much as we’d have liked. An issue with the cost of the EWI and render has been resolved and that’s due to start very soon. The first floor ceiling has been insulated and plasterboarded. This week should see the entire house being plasterboarded and/or bonded and skimmed depending on room. Outside the extension roof is finally insulated, finished and watertight, with only the decking and balustrading to be fitted a little further down the line. The gulley that runs along the top of this is formed and should move the rainwater to the sides of the roof and down into the guttering.
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Now watertight (albeit there’s still no windows) it means the underfloor heating pipework has been laid in place on top of some thick PIR insulation Following that is the screed pour which should be incoming later this week coming touch wood. Then finally, we can tile. Tiles are sitting somewhere in Essex having arrived from sunny Spain. It will be fun lugging two pallet loads of them down the hill in to the extension.
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In the main house, the UFH was laid and the floors have had 22mm chipboard glued and screwed in place. On top of this will be 6mm Hardiebacker tile board ready for the tiles. We’re running the tile board into the living room as well, despite only engineered wood going there. Reason being is to make up the difference in level where the wood will meet the tiles in the lobby. Plasterboarding about to being in earnest so there should be a tonne of change for the next update. Electric and plumbing work is ongoing elsewhere in anticipation of the plastering. Metal door frames will go in around now as well as they need to be plastered into place. We’ve heard rumbles the staircase is under way but not seen anything to date - this is now going to be Douglas Fir timber which is a nice upgrade from what we originally had in mind. The midway landing is now in place albeit in a basic form, hovering above the temporary stairwell landing that’s needed to do the lobby plastering. It looks like there’s still tonnes to do, but once the plastering is done, the flooring can go in and that’s kind of it until the the windows arrive (mid October). The moment windows are in, we can move in :)
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Above is the general gist of what the materials in the kitchen will end up like. Ash veneered cabinets one side, HPL off white/beige the other. Ikea cabinets for the base units and doors and drawers from the very helpful people at HUSK, Bristol. The idea is to carry the ash from the cabinets to the side wall of the kitchen as big panels forming a wall of wood. That’s the theory. The Spanish terracotta tiles mentioned in an earlier post on the floor, that will carry on through into the lobby. Steel worktop. Hoping it all ties together somehow. The weird soil pipe in the far corner of the kitchen is the extractor pipe from the laundry room below. This will exit the side of the house and be hidden in the kitchen bench/steps out to the terrace.
It’s felt like a lot has been done over the last few weeks, but maybe not as much as we’d have liked. An issue with the cost of the EWI and render has been resolved and that’s due to start very soon. The first floor ceiling has been insulated and plasterboarded. This week should see the entire house being plasterboarded and/or bonded and skimmed depending on room. Outside the extension roof is finally insulated, finished and watertight, with only the decking and balustrading to be fitted a little further down the line. The gulley that runs along the top of this is formed and should move the rainwater to the sides of the roof and down into the guttering.
Now watertight (albeit there’s still no windows) it means the underfloor heating pipework has been laid in place on top of some thick PIR insulation Following that is the screed pour which should be incoming later this week coming touch wood. Then finally, we can tile. Tiles are sitting somewhere in Essex having arrived from sunny Spain. It will be fun lugging two pallet loads of them down the hill in to the extension.
In the main house, the UFH was laid and the floors have had 22mm chipboard glued and screwed in place. On top of this will be 6mm Hardiebacker tile board ready for the tiles. We’re running the tile board into the living room as well, despite only engineered wood going there. Reason being is to make up the difference in level where the wood will meet the tiles in the lobby. Plasterboarding about to being in earnest so there should be a tonne of change for the next update. Electric and plumbing work is ongoing elsewhere in anticipation of the plastering. Metal door frames will go in around now as well as they need to be plastered into place. We’ve heard rumbles the staircase is under way but not seen anything to date - this is now going to be Douglas Fir timber which is a nice upgrade from what we originally had in mind. The midway landing is now in place albeit in a basic form, hovering above the temporary stairwell landing that’s needed to do the lobby plastering. It looks like there’s still tonnes to do, but once the plastering is done, the flooring can go in and that’s kind of it until the the windows arrive (mid October). The moment windows are in, we can move in :)
Above is the general gist of what the materials in the kitchen will end up like. Ash veneered cabinets one side, HPL off white/beige the other. Ikea cabinets for the base units and doors and drawers from the very helpful people at HUSK, Bristol. The idea is to carry the ash from the cabinets to the side wall of the kitchen as big panels forming a wall of wood. That’s the theory. The Spanish terracotta tiles mentioned in an earlier post on the floor, that will carry on through into the lobby. Steel worktop. Hoping it all ties together somehow. The weird soil pipe in the far corner of the kitchen is the extractor pipe from the laundry room below. This will exit the side of the house and be hidden in the kitchen bench/steps out to the terrace.