Day 211-215. Lots!
I'm getting a bit behind time here, and was away for a few days, so here is a quick summary:
Last Friday: nothing, I think.
Monday, nothing too, in deference to the neighbours.
Tuesday: Pete tPP's "big day" when he swaps the plumbing over from the old to the new system. I wasn't here, but apparently it all went OK and he finished early. So now we have a new, functional boiler. The old one has been ripped off and thrown in the skip; the hot water tank is absent. The cold tanks in the loft are still there, but not connected. But we only have an on/off switch.
Wednesday: again, I wasn't here, but there seems to have been activity: certainly the front garden is even more of a mess than before... Pete (the Bricklayer) is digging a trench for the water pipe from the side of the kitchen to the stopcock in the drive and has got most of the way. The scaffolding has come down. The new drain thingy is plumbed in outside the front door, at least "upstream" sewage is passing through it, though ours isn't yet? Not sure. Chippies at the side, putting on insulation.
Thursday: a busy and unpleasantly noisy day. Four vans outside. Carl is on electrics, and indeed doesn't finish until five, getting the light into the new shower room (at last!). Also puts in the controller for the new boiler, so we can in theory programme it. Chippies in the new side ext, putting up more insulation into the ceilings. Later on, the plasterers come to prep up the kitchen for rendering, and perhaps the side ext too. But the main pain (for us, and (alas, since the sound travels) for the neighbours too) comes from Paul having to air-hammer through the wall and concrete in order to prepare for the new soil stack, which is to be lashed up somehow tomorrow. I think (hope) all the air-hammering is done, though. This leaves a layer of dust over the kitchen and spreads into the hallway too :-(. And the counter over the washing machine has to be cut out, and the machine moved; but it gets put back in again. Pete finishes his trench digging, though.
Last Friday: nothing, I think.
Monday, nothing too, in deference to the neighbours.
Tuesday: Pete tPP's "big day" when he swaps the plumbing over from the old to the new system. I wasn't here, but apparently it all went OK and he finished early. So now we have a new, functional boiler. The old one has been ripped off and thrown in the skip; the hot water tank is absent. The cold tanks in the loft are still there, but not connected. But we only have an on/off switch.
Wednesday: again, I wasn't here, but there seems to have been activity: certainly the front garden is even more of a mess than before... Pete (the Bricklayer) is digging a trench for the water pipe from the side of the kitchen to the stopcock in the drive and has got most of the way. The scaffolding has come down. The new drain thingy is plumbed in outside the front door, at least "upstream" sewage is passing through it, though ours isn't yet? Not sure. Chippies at the side, putting on insulation.
Thursday: a busy and unpleasantly noisy day. Four vans outside. Carl is on electrics, and indeed doesn't finish until five, getting the light into the new shower room (at last!). Also puts in the controller for the new boiler, so we can in theory programme it. Chippies in the new side ext, putting up more insulation into the ceilings. Later on, the plasterers come to prep up the kitchen for rendering, and perhaps the side ext too. But the main pain (for us, and (alas, since the sound travels) for the neighbours too) comes from Paul having to air-hammer through the wall and concrete in order to prepare for the new soil stack, which is to be lashed up somehow tomorrow. I think (hope) all the air-hammering is done, though. This leaves a layer of dust over the kitchen and spreads into the hallway too :-(. And the counter over the washing machine has to be cut out, and the machine moved; but it gets put back in again. Pete finishes his trench digging, though.
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