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Light at the end of the tunnel

by Liz & Matt Coates Nov.14.2006 11:18:18 pm


Sorry for the long gap.  It’s been a busy time all round.

Last week, the concrete floor was finally laid in the living room, playroom and utility room, after putting in a duct for the pipes and cables that will eventually go to the rainwater storage tank.  The remaining walls downstairs were plastered, all except for the one that still has to be knocked through into the new living room.  The roofer also came and refelted the original dorma window at the front.

On Saturday the roofer came back and finished gritting the flat roof and took away the scaffolding, so the house finally looks finished from the outside (apart from the large pile of sand in the middle of the driveway and other assorted rubble).  We then went and bought the tiles for the kitchen, which was something of an act of faith since I still haven’t finished tiling the bathroom.  On Sunday, I tiled half of the shower, while Liz and Debbie got started on undercoating the walls in the utility and kitchen.

Yesterday, the electrician came and put in the last of the lights, switches and sockets downstairs and today, most of the new doors appeared.  We also had one of those “oops!” moments, when someone suddenly realised that the duct for the cooker hood had not be put in.  The options were limited, since the cooker is against an inside wall and there is no space above the wall units around it.  After some poking around under the floor above, examining some of my photographs of the ceiling at various stages of construction (I knew they would come in handy for something) and a quick phone conversation with the electrician, it was finally decided that it should be possible to run it through the ceiling space.

Things are now beginning to slow down a little and we’re mostly waiting for the plumber to put in radiators (we currently only have two and a half functional radiators left), connect up the gas supply and install in the new boiler and storage tank.  The electrician can’t do much more until EDF come and move the meter into it’s new location, which is also holding up the final breakthrough, since that’s the bit of wall the existing meter is attached to.

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