6 months on - Heating and Water

The first panels were delivered to us exactly 6 months ago today.

Robbie is doing a stunning job with the stone cladding.  Pointing has begun (see lower half of the face) and the house really is toning in extremely well with the nearby properties.  






Minor frustrations (nothing new there then) as we have run out of stone without quite finishing all of the designated areas, but at least the pointing can be done whilst this is being sorted.  Here you can see 'Peaky Blinder' Robbie using a giant 'icing piping' bag to insert the mortar into the gap between the stone.  It is then left for a couple of hours before it is 'tooled' and the surplus brushed away.

If you look closely here, you will see not a blurred photograph, but indeed steam coming out of the vent pipe from the boiler as the underfloor heating is now fully working.  The house is like an oven and we have the upstairs windows open 24 hours a day as we have to take the system up to maximum heat gradually before winding it down again.

And our third triumph of the day is running water - and not just any old water as this is rainwater; it is flowing straight from the massive blue rainwater harvesting tank, which for so many months was adorning the front of the bungalow, but is now buried under the driveway.

Last but not least - the remaining piece of leading has finally been laid on the roof.  It was a little job that only took half an hour for Marc & Alex to complete, but mentally it is a huge thing for us as it is yet another thing we can tick off.