Saturday 17 September 2016

We have a toilet and hot water in the house!!

So it's time I caught up with what's been going on here. I'm not sure if I said that we have a toilet in the house, an actual real life flushing toilet. James has worked like a trooper putting in miles of pipes for the heating and hot water and even  plumbed in the radiators. Today we even got the boiler plumbed back in and sparked up, so there's hot water too!

The weekend before last we finally had our drainage dug back in, not a moment too soon as the autumnal weather has meant plenty of rain. 

Whilst the digger and dumper were here we had the back garden dug back bit further to give us space for a patio behind where the dining room will one day be. The digger driver gave us two options for the soil that needed removing. The first was to have it removed by a grab lorry and the second was to have it re-distributed around the garden.  Now the first option costs and the second doesn't (well not as much). I'm sure you can imagine which option we went for! It has also given us an opportunity to make the garden more level. The only negative being that it now means we have no grass left and the veg beds had to all come out. So this weekends job for me is to try and roller the ground flat and re-seed the lawn before the winter weather sets in.















10 comments:

  1. Wow, that's a lot of work! can't wait to see it. Looks like it could get muddy quite quick until that grass gets established! I like your steps up into the garden and your new larger patio area - it's going to look great!
    A flushing loo, He really does spoil you!

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  2. At least the garden will have time to catch up with itself over winter ready for next Spring. Flushing loos? Crikey, what luxury!

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    1. I hope it does catch up, next Spring should bring a lush lawn.

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  3. get you flushing loos and hot water, your garden is going to be amazing

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  4. An indoor john would certainly be nice, with winter coming on.

    In the U.S. they make television shows about people who do what you are doing, rebuilding and renovating an old house. They are among the most popular shows today. My wife likes them.

    We have done a little renovation lately but nothing that even comes close to the work you folks have done.

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    1. They have those here too but they are on a much grander scale than our house!

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