October 15th

Major landmarks achieved in the last week, had a lot of help though:

Laying screed is a job for professionals, especially over undefloor heating.
46 square metres laid in around 3 hours.

At last ... a level, moisture free, warm floor.

Glad I didn't have to dig the trench for the cable to the pond. 

Glad I didn't have to dig the pond.

  Glad I didn't have to move the two-tonne slabs into place

5th October

More help

JD came round and got the old render off another part of the old house - it pretty much fell off as it had been put onto a previous smooth render. Not sure how we're going to get better adhesion when we get it all re-rendered.

October 3rd

Underfloor heating - what a great place to put your radiators!

Last couple of days have seen us starting to get the pipes down. The screed covering is booked to be laid on 12th October so we need to lay all pipes, get manifold hooked up, filled with water and pressure tested by then.

Here we've put down the insulation and upstands next to the wall. 

Starting the pipe runs - 150mm apart and not to go under the ktchen units, hence the gaps. The pipe is fixed onto a light steel mesh with standar zip ties. Hard work on the fingers tightening 300 of the blighters!

The underfloor radiator in the lounge. We needed two seperate pipe runs as each coil is only 100m

Next week Nigel (Mr Groundworks) will be in so we need get all remaining render of this part of the property and tidy up the garden a bit.

Mike gets going with 'Kango Hammer' on the render.

Joc burns the last of the rotten floor joists and roof timbers.

Dill adds the capping stones to her lovely gabion wall.