August Update
Summer nearly over?!! That was quick! Weather has been brilliant though! So where are we 2 months on? Here we go:
Bathrooms are tiled and ready for plumbing the fixtures in. The plumber returned briefly and I now have a working toilet! Portaloo returned! Just no running water, well kinda! I got the water connected to the mains but it's not plumbed upstairs or anywhere yet. I put a speedfit valve on the 25mm mpde mains coming into the house so I can at least use it to fill buckets, barrels etc and cart it upstairs to flush the loo!!
I got an offer of an upgraded Rendon MVHR unit but didn't realize it was as humungous as it was! Took a bit of work, a ramp and air bags to get it mostly into position. They didn't include the suspension bracket so that's on the way and will let me properly install it so we have access to both condensate drains at the bottom. There's a toilet and wash basin going into this room shortly.....
I've been prepping for the kitchen install next - fully painting that end of the open plan room and marking studs, printing photos of cable locations and prepping the floor:
I'm gluing down the bamboo floor shown. Should finish this tomorrow. I've some ratchet straps in place to keep the boards tightened overnight. The glue is really tacky - going through wipes and gloves at a fast rate!! The kitchen units were just delivered. I'm going with a green door and gold handles to complement the yellow bamboo floor and stone countertops/backsplash.
I had to pour a concrete base for the outdoor air to air unit which looks after space heating. There are 4 indoor units connected to it - one is shown above in the bedroom alongside the kitchen presses! I've installed a bottle gulley in the center of the concrete pad to drain away any condensate. The headers can do heating or cooling and each have a remote. There's an app. The only thing is the remote doesn't show the current temp in the room, just the target temp you set. Also the units can do heating OR cooling, so if your significant other likes it at 26oC and you like it more around 19oC whoever sets it first wins, all others have to wait until the unit that's heating or cooling turns off before it can kick in - i.e. ambient 20oC , partner sets 26oC, you set 19oC later, your unit does nothing until unit in heating mode finishes, so yours can go into cooling mode. Makes sense, you just hide all batteries in the remotes except yours!
Irish Water connected me up, a lot of bods turned up but they were finished at 3:30pm and connected me successfully. I was about to go to buy a water key but the one they installed has a plastic handle you turn so you don't need one! I had a chance to test it the next day but ran extra pipe outdoors just in case, glad I did. The valve I had bought wasn't a 90 degree open / close one, it requires ratcheting down to fully shut so it would have caused some damage until I realised that! Was very handy for mixing 8 bags of ready mix cement though! They come back to install a water meter later, nice of them! We don't get charged currently but it's a nasty topic and caused a lot of marches to get the Government to back down. Now we've a very expensive quango and no water fees! Great, huh?! (ROI)
The Aquabox for the mains water arrived so I've been shuttling that around the ground floor until it's installed. That pumps water around the whole house and will be located downstairs in the utility room alongside the heat pump hot water cylinder I'm getting shortly (separate space heating/cooling & hot water systems).
No injuries to report - Pilates is really helping the back. Still waiting on mains electrical, no date yet, 16 weeks is end September. Had a survey done a fortnight ago but nothing since. Hope to finally move in by November as the site insurance is up and 2 years in place, they may be reluctant to extend so I'm prioritizing items that must be finished before then vs ones that I can do later. Time is going by fast as as hard as I work there's always more that enough to do each evening and weekend. I've a weeks hols at the start of September so catch up and have a few days left I might take later that month but we'll see.
Best of luck to everyone else with their projects. I don't know how to all do it!!! Or did it!! Onwards and upwards!
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