Utilities

The house now has some services running through it. The plumbers have plumbed up the house and it's 'live' (water in the pipes). This is done so that if anyone hits a pipe when putting in the interior cladding, they know about it. Also the sparky has been up and wired upstairs mostly. There is still a lot of wiring yet to do.


The solar panel guys also have turned up and put the pipes up through the roof and hooked up the 'header tank'. The header tank is a tank that acts as an intermediate step for the steaming hot water from the roof to cool a little before entering the house's hot water supply. Apparently the temperature of solar hot water can get past boiling point!



Of course building work has also been continuing apace with all the weatherboards (those supplied) stained and fixed and some corner-boards done. We're short roughly 8 lengths of weatherboard, but we have to wait about 2 weeks for any more! Strange that they can't make some sooner, oh well. Needless to say there is copious amounts of sawdust being produced and each weekend a cleanup is more or less essential.

October Snowfall

Last friday we had an amazing turn of weather. It started on Thursday with rain -and lots of it! I'd say It rained for about 7-8 hours, because it was bucketing down when I went to the pub and the same when I came home!

The next day we all woke to snowfall as these pictures show. This continued on for about 24 hours and even bent some of the guttering on the new house that had no snowstraps.

Luckily because it wasn't winter temperatures the snow melted as quickly as it fell during most of the snowfall. Even with all the melting the level of snow on the ground still reached about 10 inches! I hope to get more pictures of this soon.

More like a house

Since the last update the matchstick quality of the house has transformed with the roofing, building wrap, cladding and even some windows being installed. These elements are comparatively fast to put on, when the structure and framing seemed to take an awful long time and effort. Just as well I suppose since that is what keeps the house standing after all!

I've been staining the rafters, dummy rafters, and weatherboards and there is still a great deal to be stained/painted. I'll probably be doing that job most of the time until the house is complete.