If the view on a wet day in March, is this good, how much better will it be on a fine day?
The key to a 'green' heating system sits in the garden - the pipes for our geothermal system from Ice Energy, piled amongst the daffodils. There wasnews last night from our digger driver who can come to 'sow' them next Wednesday.
Ten minutes clear and dry was the best today, but inside three teams worked steadily and much was achieved.
The plasterers rocked on downstairs. If plastering was an Olympic sport this team would be medal winners. Upstairs, there was awareness that the plasterers have one room only left to do downstairs so the plasterboard was steadily fitted.
When it was built in 1931, there was little insulation. 77 years later there are now substantial layers being fitted which will make a dramatic difference, cutting heat loss in winter, and keeping the house cool, in the apparently unlikely event of a hot summer.
No matter how neatly the drawings show bathrooms fitting nicely into the space upstairs, in reality, trying to fit a shower in restricted space and under reduced headroom of the eaves, has been an exercise in ingenuity. A quadrant shower, nestled up to the central chimney breast does the job. The enclosure fits with one cm to spare - and we've found satin glass so our hard water wont leave visible ugly limescale. And yes, a trip to the loo can be achieved without cracking your head! All the pipework is now in place. The twin bedroom will be en suite.
At the western end upstairs, will be a bedroom with a six foot bed, and in the room, as befits such splendid views from the newly fitted Velux - there will be THE bath. It's freestanding and positioned so that bathers can admire views to the Downs and Brighstone Forest. From the other bedroom window, there are distant views to the West Wight and Hurst Castle. Likewise from the cloakroom window the other side of the chimney breast - so why put in obscured glass?
Today the walls went in, so we can now say there is a cloakroom!
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