Ready to plaster board

Since I am running low on remaining vacation days for the year and the fact that the landscaping work was due to commence, Heidi had a 5 day trip to the house a couple weekends ago. This was the first time she had seen the house in person since all our work back in April -  a lot has changed since then!

I sent Heidi off with a work list to be completed to get some of the rooms finalized for plaster boarding. this she managed to acheive with Evelyn helping her for 3 days as well. It was a mixed scope of work with everything from installing wall insulation to putting in short electrical cable spurs for UFH manifolds. Thanks to modern communications we were able to discuss requirements while looking at the same thing (me a pictue on the phone and Heidi the real deal)

Wall insulation typical detail

Heidi hard at work

More than 1/3 of the house can now be plaster boarded including the full height hall which I know the joiners will have fun with ;)  The remaining rooms are those that have piping running across then or down walls and are still waiting for the plumber i.e. me, to get these finished. I am back again this weekend and will be focussed on the plumbing.

The other big thing going on was the start of the landscaping work in the garden. The ground had been cleared of weeds and roughly graded by digger the week before - this included spreading the heap of top soil at the bottom of the garden out as well - but the final preparation for laying the turf started when Heidi was on site since she is the artistic director. In addition to getting ready for the turf the mulch around the edges of the garden was also installed. Even without turf all this work make the garden look so much better already. Everything has turned out much more level than we expected which has been an unexpected bonus.

The turf goes down this week so I will see it at the weekend - fingers crossed for some wet weather in the next few weeks to help the turf along.

Area out the back of the garage

Main lawn area with mulch borders around edge

Currently I am working on a plan to get the GSHP & UFH up and running before we do the main second fix for the house so that we can get the screed dried out a bit more.

We are currently starting to buy sockets and switches for second fix and are looking at internal doors. Must mean the end is getting nearer :)