Major Plumbing day

The time had come.... I had to tackle the central heating. Sarah has taken the girls to London for the weekend so I can lift lots of floor boards.
I needed to put the pipes in for the radiator that will be in the Utility room and Beth's bedroom. The old copper pipes were so tightly plumbed in I decided to re route the main 22mm pipes that take the central heating upstairs.
They go up the wall in the downstairs toilet and come up under the floor in Rebekah's room.
 
First I had to put in the new 22mm plastic pipes. They are so stiff its like wrestling an Anaconda.
 
 
 
Here are the tails for Beth's room radiator.
 
And the ones for the utility room.
 
 
 
So its all in. Time to presurise the system.... and HURRAY!!!! no leaks!

I still have to do this all again ... at least once if not twice to do the rest of the system.

Progress report week 15

Week 15 and we are watertight in our main roof again. YEAH

Ridge tiles on the roof, tiles on the dormer and the bathroom marked out inside, it's all starting to take shape now.

When the builders turned up on Tuesday morning with LOADS of dust sheets I was rather concerned. I decided they were obviously going to knock holes in the ceiling. I was right!!!! They've also removed the cupboard at the top of the stairs (and put something there to stop the children falling down the stairs in the night!). Lots of noise and dust followed but the builders have done a great job of clearing up after themselves.
The ceiling now has plasterboard over most of it.
Next week, internal walls.

For more photos from this week see here and here