Update on the House !!

Sassinak · Update on the House !!

Just thought I would let people know how things are going with the conversion.
I lost my temper with the Polish builders and told them to F*** off - and they did lol
We have since found another joiner who has half the staircase installed and will hopefully be back this weekend to do some more.
We have found a new plumber who has installed most of the bathroom equipment and is waiting for the drainage to be put in (Next week in theory!!) and then that should be all systems go.
Electrician hopefully coming this weekend (I'm not holding my breath) to sort out the Polish cock-ups - there are quite a few. e.g. no isolator switch for the electric shower or the electric bath components !! A 13 amp socket to power a range cooker !!
But the good news is that our bedroom is completely decorated. The corridor and utility room have the floors tiled and the walls papered. The upstairs bedroom is wallpapered, as is the study.
It is looking like a house so I am chuffed to bits. I can finally see light at the end of the long tunnel

I will post about the housewarming when we are ready to move in

wildgarlic

Sorry to hear about the various hassles you've had, but good news that things are now moving on. Hope your sparkie turns up soon - no room for mistakes like that when it comes to electricity methinks.

zombiecazz

Can't wait to see the finished house.
hope all your workmen turn up.

Thrawnquine

I've been following the story of your house conversion since I first joined NEEPS and it is good to know that your long wait is nearly at an end. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed!

monkey nuts

Can't wait to see the finished version either

especially your tiny lounge!!

Smooth Hound

i missed this for some reason,

not like me

, its a really cracking house, its well the only word i can think of is, magnificent 8)

Sassinak

Lots more been happening - and some that hasn't !!

I rang a drilling company yesterday morning to arrange to have 2 core holes drilled through the walls. 1 for the stove flue and 1 for the kitchen extractor hood. They came in the afternoon and did it £300 fo 2 holes, but it would have taken many hours of work with a chisel and would have been messy. These are really nead circular holes

We have a huge digger on site at the moment trenching to connect the drains to the septic tank. He will hopefully sort out some of the ground levels at the same time.

The bad news is that the sparkie who promised to be here today is invisible

He came out a couple of weeks ago and said he would come out today and finish the work off !!! grrr

IainC

Seems to be something that's common with sparkies... inlaws had one do so much work in their place for him to then leave and not finish off the work. Had to get someone else in a good while later to finish off the work.

lachlanandmarcus

Hope its not our sparkie! He was here yesterday putting in the junction box for the electric for the stables (hurrah) and the entirely mythical barn (just a concrete base for the forseeable but one day!).

We are also twiddling our thumbs as have waited 6 weeks for our stonemason and 2 weeks for the plasterer so far....and we cant get any further without them!!

Sassinak

The good news for today is that the digger uncovered a large concrete apron outside what was the old silage pit. This is where the Partridge Pekin run is and I have squidged through the mud for months - no make that years !!
The bad news is that they have now removed all the concrete because that's where the sewer pipe is running

Oh well it was nice seeing it briefly lol

monkey nuts

B*gger!! back to the wellies then Sass

lachlanandmarcus

sewers are though very sexy when you dont have any! so I reckon sewers win!

Sassinak

I have a warm house

No we haven't set fire to it, although there have been times when I've been tempted lol

The geothermal heat exchange pump and underfloor heating were powered up yesterday and the lounge is already at 20degres (C not F !!)

The pump isn't as noisy as we were told it might be. There is a low rumble, but nothing that is very disturbing.

lachlanandmarcus

wow that sounds fantastic, quite green and envious as we havent got geothermal at this stage. Must be lovely to be warm esp when from the earth!!!

JamesB

sorry to seem like nitpicking but they are not geothermal and it bugs me when people refer to it as such. We had one in our previous house and it worked great. The correct term is 'ground source heat' pump, essentially they are a solar system. Unless you live in Iceland, you would have to drill a long way to get geothermal here!

James

Sassinak

But surely geo means ground and the heat is being recovered from the ground

Sassinak

Spent the first night in the house - Yippee

The carpet in our bedroom was fitted Friday morning so me and Nix and her fella spent the afternoon moving furniture in and setting the bed up.
Still no electrics, but we had an extension lead running from the workshop which powered the lights for us.

The bedroom is huge - 6 metres by 5 metres. Our new bed is a super-king size. 6ft wide 7ft long. The sheer bliss after 4 years in a caravan bed which you had to shuffle sideways to pass.

I am soooo happy

Just need to get the rest of the house to match it now lol

zombiecazz

fantastic Sass. Happy for you.

wildgarlic

Oh that must be absolute bliss!! Here's to many more happy days spent in your new house.

Sassinak

Picture of the bedroom

Please ignore the formica wardrobes, they are temporary until we can get the fitted ones built

And a couple of pictures of my half finished kitchen.
It still needs little things like an electric supply and the sink plumbing in, and the wall cupboards are sitting on top of the base units in leu of the worktops that haven't arrived yet. But I am sooo pleased with how it is looking that I had to share

Nix

I must say that the cupboard doors look very well fitted

lor138

Maria

It looks wonderful.

Sassinak

Discovered a strange side effect to this house - It has shrunk my dogs !! lol

I used to have 2 huge border collies taking up a lot of the floor space in the caravan. they now slip rather inconspicuously into a corner of whatever room I'm in haha Brilliant

lor138

Nix

kimmie

sass and nix what a fantastic job!! the only thing now is when its finished...do think you will ever see Phil? i mean you have both been so used to being in the caravan, that you will rattle like 2 peas in a tin for a short while

am really pleased for you both though

PurpleDragon

Fantastic - what a difference from when I saw it last! I shall have to invite myself round for a nosey