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| The old 20cm thick slab has to go |
Anyway, once that was done the lovely weather has meant that progress has been fast and the footings are now in (concrete poured this morning) and tomorrow the blockwork for the new garden room/lounge extension begins. For this part of the build we are using blockwork - cheaper here, but for the first floor extension over the games room and garage we are using Structural Insulated Panels as they are lighter and will go up quickly - so more on those in a later blog.
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| Loving the new outside radiator feature! |
I headed this post up as Decisions, decisions, decisions and there is a good reason for that because, whilst the builders have been busy with the extension, we have been busy making those decisions. In a project like this there so many to make!! This week has been bathroom fittings (almost there with this), kitchen plans (still a bit to go here as we are trying to use some of the wooden doors from the existing kitchen), floor coverings (I'm loving Marmoleum at the moment and will write more about this in future), front door colour (having problems matching the dark purple of the outside feature cladding panel) heating options and Heat Recovery and Ventilation systems.
The last two are connected issues, and giving us a few headaches, because we need to know how much heat input we need for the house once it has been wrapped with insulation and made pretty airtight. The decision we have made is to find an energy consultant to advise us because we don't want to spend money replacing the old 1960s skirting heating with modern radiators if they never come on because the inside temperature stays so warm. We might also want to put at least one stove into the house as there are two lovely fireplaces.
The chimneys will have to be blocked up to stop heat escaping so using an inset stove in one, if not both, could be a good option - we are liking the Scan inset stoves like the one below
The last two are connected issues, and giving us a few headaches, because we need to know how much heat input we need for the house once it has been wrapped with insulation and made pretty airtight. The decision we have made is to find an energy consultant to advise us because we don't want to spend money replacing the old 1960s skirting heating with modern radiators if they never come on because the inside temperature stays so warm. We might also want to put at least one stove into the house as there are two lovely fireplaces.
The chimneys will have to be blocked up to stop heat escaping so using an inset stove in one, if not both, could be a good option - we are liking the Scan inset stoves like the one below
It could however completely overheat the house so we need that advice.
Well enough from me for now - I must go and make some more of those decisions!
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