Nick and I visited the reclamation yard again the week before xmas and picked out a sink, some door handles and picked up the doors so we can get measured up and frames can be built to suit each door. A successful visit except that we think it was probably a bit too active for Nick after his appendix op and the next day the op site became quite rigid and painful. So close to xmas the doc sent him straight back to hospital for another scan. All clear and home the next day with some antibiotics. phew.
Creative Christmas cake decorating has become part of the xmas tradition at Girton with a rather grizzly theme developing!! Last year santa was involved in a horrific accident and was being rescued by ambulance. This year he was on the operating table as a nod to Nick's ordeal.
Back to the house ... the solar panels were fitted just before xmas, along with the flat roof. The slates should be going on this week, or next (somewhat dependent on the gale force winds i'm sure). Inside plasterboard is the next major task. I think the floor downstairs must be happening quite soon as well. It's currently just the concrete slab which will eventually be outside the thermal envelope - insulation and then a layer of screed with the underfloor heating pipes in it are to go down bringing the floor level up by about 200mm. We're meeting Ian on Monday to talk about the schedule going forwards as we still haven't really nailed it down again following the delay cause by the earth wall. I'll get some pics of the solar panels to post then.
Samples of the quarry tiles we've picked out for the wet/utility areas downstairs.
Tomorrow we are picking up a shed Nick's bought off ebay - we're planning on setting it up on the car port so we have somewhere to store things that we buy for the house.
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