As it turned out, it ended up being a half week of work for one reason and another.  On the Monday we took the day off as the materials we needed could not be delivered until Tuesday, so we had nothing to work with.  07.45 And our delivery arrived on site Tuesday morning, 50 odd sheets of 70mm floor insulation and 80 bags of cement.  The cement will not be needed for a week or so until John and J the plasterers can get out to us to do the screeded floor.  So we covered all the ground floor with a layer of Damp Proof Membrane and then started to lay the sheets of floor insulation on top.  Once we had all the sheets down we then did all the cuts and filled in all the remaining gaps so we had all the floor space covered.  Once that was done, Stu and I went round and taped up all the joints.

Wednesday morning and we made a start on laying the water based under floor heating pipe work.  This is a new product to us, so it was case of taking things slowly and learning as we went.  Doing the smaller office area first and things were going ok.  We got ourselves in a routine, with Stu laying and shaping the pipe while I followed behind clipping the pipe into the insulation.  We then moved onto the other ‘zones’.  On one of the zones we had to drill through one of the block walls and then pass the run of pipe work through.  This was the first time we did this and unfortunately we ended up putting quite a bad kink into the pipe.  The pipe work is supposed to run in one complete length with no joints, but we now had an un-wanted kink just where we didn’t want it, which could have ruined the 100 metre length of pipe we working with!  But Stu stepped in to save the day.  He worked out that if we cut the kink out of the pipe and using a little bit of artistic licence with the zone layouts, we could use this roll of pipe on one of the smaller zones and use a fresh length of pipe to re-do the zone we had just made a mistake on.  It put us back a bit time wise, but we got everything sorted and back on track, taking more care next time when feeding the pipe work through block walls!

Stu turned up onto site Thursday looking the worse for wear, and it was nothing self inflicted!  He had been feeling un-well across the week but had continued to work on.  But Thursday was when the illness came to the fore and he looked like he had seen better days.  We were expecting the floor board delivery Thursday morning, so we agreed to take the delivery in when it arrived and then take the rest of the day off, plus take Friday off so hopefully he could get back to full health after a long weekend.  We noticed on the floor board packaging that the pallet of floor board weighed nearly two tonnes.  Two tonnes of floor board that we have to hand carry into the property and get passed up onto the first floor and fixed into position, oh joy.  I defiantly hope Stu is feeling better next week!