Walls again!

We are getting close - I am buying tiles for the kitchen windowsills! And little sample pots of paint to help the ongoing dispute over the colour of the hall and the living room. There is a new sense of urgency to get it finished soon.

Anyway we have a very nice bloke building the wall round the bottom of the house - the plinth, and it makes a huge difference to the look of the outside. House was looking like it was floating in the air - now it will be anchored to the ground AND we 'll get rid of the piles of bricks I keep tripping over.

A few pics below:

Can't see a blasted thing in this photo


That's better

One BIG event I forgot about - on Friday, Paul Jennings (the Man With A Fan) came to check our airtightness - this is a requirement. Measured in air changes per hour - super eco is less than 1, average house about 10 (draughty) and modern houses about 7.

We came out to about 1.5 and we expect to be able to get lower when we bung up a few draughty spots. So we are deeply chuffed.

He does the test by taking off the front door and putting a fan in instead which sucks the air out and then he checks where the leaks are coming in. Good photos.

Sunday evening after a day's painting - we are gently arguing about colours, which is a great treat. Tomorrow our plinth will start to be built and the house will look a lot better and it will a lot more sthapatya vedic.

Yesterday was a big IKEA shop - kitchen units and a hob, tiles and lights.

I am trying to get one room (the big kitchen/diner/sitting room) finished so we can start moving furniture in! R is still doing complicated things with showers and the utility room.

All go - time to book the muhurta for moving in. Yes!

Loos and lighting - definitely one up on concrete and diggers which is exactly where we were this time last year. Onwards to curtains and carpets.... Today we have electricians and a plumber and next week we have help to build the brickwork plinth which is an important feature of Sthapatya Veda. So a load of bricks arrived at 8am.


Lights!


Looking up the hall.


Levelling the bath

There follows a tour of the toilets:

Downstairs loo

Bathroom loo with tiles

Sunday evening, 1st June, paint going on, kitchen going in, beautiful plastering of the big hall ceiling. Elder d. getting better, electricians coming this week, plumber (probably!) next week.