Plumber finished

For now at least. He didn’t connect the heat pump pipes either inside or outside and left the WC in the bathroom unconnected as that’s got to come out for the tiles to be rectified, but he did connect everything else up and also made a temporary connection to the mains supply to test the system out. Here’s the heat pump exterior heat exchanger. The water pipes are unconnected and for now the hole is still open in the wall.

Here’s the temporary mains connection. Unfortunately it means that for now there isn’t a connection for a hosepipe but I shouldn’t be needing one over the week-end as I’ll be working on installing the kitchen.

Here’s the little handbasin in the separate toilet. The mixer tap that the builder supplied was much larger than the one I bought for the bathroom washbasin and when I showed it to the plumber he said he’d swap them for me, which he has done.

I turned the tap on and water came out of it and the WC also flushed but before leaving the plumber had turned the main stopcock off and the flow stopped. I didn’t want to turn it back on again just in case there’s something to do with the heat pump supply that I don’t know about.

Here’s a general view of the utility room now all of the connections bar the ones for the heat pump have been made. I understand why the manifold has been used to connect up the hot and cold water system but I can’t say that I find it very pretty and I think it also takes up a lot of space.

This is the arrangement in the corner for a waste for the sink I intend to install in the future and a washer/dryer and the cold supply for the latter. When I get into the house and get the chance I’m going to try and find a way to modify it so it protrudes less from the wall.

This is the hot and cold water system manifold.

Here’s a final shot of the connections above the heat pump system unit. It’ll be a nightmare trying to paint the walls with that lot in the way. I wish I could have done it previously but I had no idea that the unit would be that big.

This is a shot of the heat pump pipes in the corner of the wardrobe alcove in bedroom 2. The plumber has boxed them in from floor to ceiling which was a good idea and makes for a neat job.

I did a reasonable amount of work myself today assembling all of the wall cabinets ready for when I can mount them on the kitchen walls.

I finished off by getting the first floor mounted cabinet ready to be installed and also drew the first line on the wall to align all of the floor cabinet tops to, but I’ll leave that until later.