House build

[JhnBssll]

My daughter’s left-handed and our world revolves around her …. or so she thinks . Our land-shark will repel any invaders long before they get to the stairs … if not there’s the back-up Jack Russell - no-one could survive her breath

A veritable onion of home defence hahaha

 

[Colin Grigson]

Plasterers have finished and done a great job, I’m really pleased with the finish and the staircase looks perfect …. onto floor insulation, underfloor heating and screed starting next week …

 

[BianchiVirgin]

Those stairs are seriously cool.

 

[Colin Grigson]

Those stairs are seriously cool.

Thank you BV … the plasterers did an amazing job on the staircase

 

[alicat]

Oh how amazing, it suddenly looks like a house now!

 

[Colin Grigson]

We’re onto floors … and due to labour shortages my skills have been tested once again with me taking on the fitting of the acoustic insulation upstairs … 8cm polystyrene was fitted downstairs by the heating engineers but they don’t ‘do’ mineral insulation … most likely due to how itchy and irritating it is to work with. Next job is to lay the heating pipes in their ‘cassette’ and then onto screed which is booked for 9th-10th May. The floors are another ‘biggy’ - once they’re done it will really start to take shape

 

[BianchiVirgin]

Heating engineers AKA plumbers.

Sorry, bugbear of mine, the misuse of that word.

 

[alicat]

Ooh, first sighting of furniture!

 

[Colin Grigson]

Heating engineers AKA plumbers.

Sorry, bugbear of mine, the misuse of that word.

There are two distinct parties carrying out the ‘plumbing works’ here … one lot do the water supply to the house, sewers and hot and cold water, whilst the other lot keep to heating systems, boilers and so on … whilst it maybe a misnomer to refer to the latter group as ‘heating engineers’ I’m not sure what else I could call them to separate them from the more ‘ordinary’ plumbers

 

[Colin Grigson]

Ooh, first sighting of furniture!

Aaah, the builders chairs … you had me wondering for a moment

 

[BianchiVirgin]

There are two distinct parties carrying out the ‘plumbing works’ here … one lot do the water supply to the house, sewers and hot and cold water, whilst the other lot keep to heating systems, boilers and so on … whilst it maybe a misnomer to refer to the latter group as ‘heating engineers’ I’m not sure what else I could call them to separate them from the more ‘ordinary’ plumbers

Yeah, on the continent they're mainly separate disciplines but they're still plumbers. Or heating installers or similar. They're probably a better standard of tradespeople too, as they specialise and tend to be technically pretty good at what they do.

 

[Colin Grigson]

Another productive few days … downstairs has the heating pipes installed and they’ve moved upstairs to complete that. The screed is already booked for 9th May so the heating pipes need pressure testing and signing off before the builders are back to shutter all the openings, balconies and steps. A good week this one

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Heating engineers AKA plumbers.

Sorry, bugbear of mine, the misuse of that word.

As one of a large group of people that did additional qualifications over and above anything a plumber would do, and has never been designated as a 'plumber' and qualified with a specific qualification as an Engineer, your bug bear can be classed as resolved.

 

[JhnBssll]

House progress is looking great Colin, standard of workmanship seems spot on from the pics!

As an engineer myself I've always thought of it as a mindset rather than a qualification and have no problem with the term being used in this respect.

 

[Colin Grigson]

House progress is looking great Colin, standard of workmanship seems spot on from the pics!

As an engineer myself I've always thought of it as a mindset rather than a qualification and have no problem with the term being used in this respect.

Thank you John, I’m catching you up slowly … had my porch flashing done today - no pressure