Getting it done

First off, I managed to resolve my dilemma by just saying that I thought I’d spotted a problem yesterday with one of the electrical cables. The guy in charge of the plaster-work just said that on his drawing the cable is shown as containing the wiring for both a plug point and a light switch and that it would be up to the electrician who is due to return on Friday to make sure that they are each at the correct heights. So that was that one sorted and we’re able to keep our little secret concerning the key 😉

He said that they’d start putting the doors in today and when I went up to have a look at progress at lunchtime I found that they’d been marking out the positions of all of the partitions that will make up the rooms and had started on the kitchen door. They’d also cut an access into the roof space in the utility room ceiling as they’d said they would do a few days ago.

This is the far, bedroom end of the central corridor.

A gap of about 2 cm has to be left below each door to allow for ventilation I was told, so the above images show what the combined thickness of the second concrete layer plus floor tiles will be. They measure the floor to ceiling height downwards from the ceiling so the thickness will become greater approaching the bedroom end of the house, especially in the outer corner of bedroom 1.

I had to go up to the house mid-afternoon to discuss a small problem with Didier concerning the electric cabling for the heat pump. The original plan was to enclose it in the wall of bedroom 2 (see the far corner in the above image that hasn’t yet been plaster-boarded) with the heat pump being positioned outside on the back corner of the house.

However, apparently there’s now a regulation that says that the heat pump cabling has to be ‘accessible’ so the builder has recommended moving the heat pump to the centre of the bedroom wall and running the cabling up into the ceiling in the corner of the space that’s being created for fitted cupboards in bedroom 2. This is the only alternative as it clearly can’t go outside the wall in the other corner where it would be a visual eyesore, so I’ve agreed to it.

After we’d finished talking I took the next couple of shots showing the progress that had been made with the walls and doors since the morning.

And finally, here’s the situation at the end of the day.

The next view is looking across the kitchen out into the living room.

If the electrician is due back on Friday, the two guys doing the plaster-board work must expect to be finished tomorrow. And I won’t be surprised if they are the way they are going 🙂