Because of the chalk floor in the middle of the barn, the underfloor heating pipes need to go down the steps into the family room. The steps will be built over the pipework.
We've decided to have curved corner steps down into family room rather than straight ones.
The steps have to be concreted in and then tiled so a plywood form needs to be made up to act as a mould
Wall lights family room - first fix
Roof timbers on the garage. Beginning to look like a garage
We've been painting the fascia boards. It's so cold at the moment that it's difficult to find a time when it can be done - needs to be above 5C. Hope it doesn't hold things up as everything else is moving along.
View of rafters from inside the garage
Joist hangers for roof timbers
Meanwhile, inside things are progressing with the fireplace, the hearth. We have to decide about the brick pattern for hearth. We have a choice of this ...
... or this one
And we've decide on bricks laid on edge with the header face exposed – rowlocks – to
form the edge of the hearth
And for something completely different is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, it’s a plane.
Things ar really motoring this week and issues that have exercised us have included:
roofer - need to find one, get quote and all that
water quality - how to interpret the environment health reports and translate them into a list of appropriate filtration and purification units
internal and external doors need to hung and that means we still need to buy a couple
floor tiles - we think we've converged on a choice for the floor finish downstairs and in the bathrooms so all we need to do is find suppliers, get quotes, place the order. That's all
Similar story for the garage doors
Just to make life interesting we've booked the delivery of the ground source heat pump for 2 weeks hence. The garage & plant room block need to be built, water-tight ie have a tiled roof. We'll see
roofer - need to find one, get quote and all that
water quality - how to interpret the environment health reports and translate them into a list of appropriate filtration and purification units
internal and external doors need to hung and that means we still need to buy a couple
floor tiles - we think we've converged on a choice for the floor finish downstairs and in the bathrooms so all we need to do is find suppliers, get quotes, place the order. That's all
Similar story for the garage doors
Just to make life interesting we've booked the delivery of the ground source heat pump for 2 weeks hence. The garage & plant room block need to be built, water-tight ie have a tiled roof. We'll see
And finally
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