It was a labour intensive week this week, but our first job of the week was putting in the under floor heating pipe work on the ground floor.  We had already got a few zones down, but we needed to get the rest of the zones in prior to the floor being screeded later in the week.  Once again Stu laid out the pipe while I followed along with the plastic clips holding the pipe work in place.  We were working to plans provided by the manufacturer, but we had to use a bit of artistic licence as the ‘scaled’ drawings for some reason didn’t match the ‘scaled’ foot print of the build, but we got there in the end.  Tuesday was a great day; we had 150 sheets of plaster board delivered for the first floor area, along with 200 lengths of CLS timber for the various stud walls.  First job was to get the CLS in, and then it was the joy of getting the plaster board in.  We had to get the board through the front door and into the hallway.  Then Stu had to lift the sheet up and pass it up to me on the first floor, where I then had to pull the sheet up and then lay it down and stack them up as they came.  It sounds a lot easier as I write this, but it was bloomin hard work at the time.  In the end it took us all day to get the timber and plaster board into the house, which people don’t always appreciate these things and the time it takes, but it’s all part of the process.

On Wednesday we had 20 tonnes of sharp sand delivered ready for screeding on Thursday and Friday.  After that was delivered Stu and I ran in the underground pipe work for the Rain Water Harvest System, which involved digging out trenches for the pipe work and then feeding the electrical cables and water feed pipe through the larger pipe work and into the tank, with the other end going into the Utility.  By the end of the day after some huffing and puffing we had everything installed and ready to be buried under the earth and hardcore, thankfully never to be seen again!

Thursday and Friday was a fine end to the week as between Stu and I we mixed up the 20 tonnes of sharp sand, with cement, for the floor screed which was being put down by John and J the plasterers.  It was nonstop from 07.30 to 16.00, with the mixer on the go all day as we churned out barrow load after barrow load. By the end of play Friday we were looking forward to the weekend and doing as little physical exertion as possible!