The first room almost finished

The first room is almost finished; we still have to add a mirror, a towel rail and lighting (the light at the moment is from a portable lamp) to go but it is possible to have a bath (with hot water!) and use the loo.  The bathrooms have all come from Ocean Bathrooms in Bridport.  We are very grateful indeed to Joe Muhl, who gave us excellent advice and was incredibly patient with all our deliberations (I seem to remember it took us 3 visits and each visit lasted between 4-6 hours before everything was finalised).  Anyhow, in the end we went for Duravit white goods, Mereway vanity units and Hansgrohe taps.  This has been expertly fitted mostly by Aarron from MJP Bathrooms, with carpentry by Matt, whilst Adam (with a little help from David) sorted out the water heating.

The ventilation tank is now in its final resting place (sitting very proudly in the centre of what I had once hoped would be a spacious airing cupboard) - not connected yet but you can't have everything.

And last but not least.... this morning we registered ourselves for the FIT (Feed-In Tariff) so that any surplus electricity we produce can be sold back to the government for 12.6p per unit (registrations received after 1st February - deadline has been moved back a month, will only be able to claim back 1p per unit) so it was quite crucial we processed this in time.

December 10th: David's Birthday - We can but dream!

We can but dream of a house with yellow walls!

David with his cake on his 59th birthday.

Lorries deliver stone for hardcore on the drive and take away piles of unwanted muck.

We now are able to park off road!

And not a moment too soon, we are very relieved to have retaining walls on the northern and western boundaries, holding back the earth where the levels on the surrounding properties are higher than our land.

Scaffolding has gone

Although from our regular crew, I have only had the company of one builder for two days this week, there has been progress as on Monday the scaffolding was taken down.  Marc has been busy carrying on with the Aquapanelling around the garage (much easier now without the scaffold in the way); I did offer my body to him (purely as a builder's mate) but I'm not too sure he knew what to say about this suggestion.  



This rejection left me on 'clearing up the site' duty, ( a very theraputic and satisfying job) again, easier without the scaffolding, but I have now made friends with the staff at the local tip, who today even helped me to unload.  

Never mind, David will be back next week and I do believe (but have been disappointed before) that we will be back to our full complement of people, both inside and out.