Our builders have been motoring on with the work to the first floor and the rooms are now formed with almost all of the first floor first fixes complete. The ceilings are fully boarded together with at least one side of the metal stud wall. We have decided to insulate certain walls to cut down the sound between rooms and adjacent to Bathrooms.
Much of the telephone conversations with Tony and Steve over the last week has been about plumbing. All the hot and cold supply pipework and drainage connections are being hidden behind stud walls and then terminated at the right position for the appliances that have yet to be purchased. I think we have just about eliminated all of the surface fixed pipework which we would have had to boxed in.
One thing that needed us to compromise on is the shower tray which has to be built up off the floor by 100mm as we have an exposed beam ceiling. This is to enable fitting of a trap and the waste and to achieve the correct fall into the main drain pipe and soil stack. In short we don't want to see pipework hanging through the ceiling when we are sat in the lounge.
The weather is much warmer in France at the moment so we are hoping that work on installing the new windows and doors can re-start. This will be just about the last major work item to be completed and will transform the ground floor and give a view out the back of the house onto the garden.
We are heading out to take a look at the work next month staying at our friends house literally a stones throw away. It will then have been seven months since we saw our petite maison at a time when it didn't even have a roof so we are getting really excited.
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