Well its been a busy week with work an' all.....the house is coming on fine.
Met Rudgier ( our Huf Project Manager) on Wednesday evening who had been to Ireland and Exeter before arriving at ours at around 6pm. Busy these Germans!!!! Afterwards he was back to Heathrow.
It was the first time inside for Pam and she started talking about the layout and how it might have been possible to change things, but somehow she never finished the conversation because I guess she realised everything was being put in place, with pipes and cables, hundreds of cables everywhere. It was too late. (well I didn't want it changed anyway)
Downstairs in the sous - sol (basement ) in the plant room all these cables came to one spectacular finish. We are not building an aircraft here I thought, but why so many cables???? I was later to discover when Colin ( the electrician) arrived that these were to be individually wired in to a fuse box which would have been fit for an aircaraft!!!! Not the minature fuse bopxes we have in the UK, this is big, very big. In the same area ( they call it the plant room) is housed a boiler the size of a brewery silo. All the plumbing to and from it is superbly executed, a veritable work of art in 15mm copper pipe.
Anyway, back upstairs we were told that the floor screeds would go in the week before Christmas and then they would switch on the heating to dry the house out.
At this point I had to break the news that neither the Gas nor the electricty services were in, nor was there any prospect of this next eyar, let alone before Christmas!!!
Rudiger calmly offered an alternative which involved driving some space heaters from Germany, and we agreed that might be necessary if the miracle of connection was not to happen.
I've had plenty of comment from the near neighbours about the state of the verge opposite. Well its not us you see.....its other vehicles that go up on the verge cos the Huf Vans ( the three of them) park outside. I will be out there this week with a fork and a few turves to keep them quiet...or perhaps I'll leave it till after Christmas. ( The reindeer might chew it up on their way round or better still, the electricity contractors might damage it further when they lay the service to the house).
Plenty of positive comment though from the passers by............its quite handy because Huf leave a bundle of brochures about the 'Huf Dream' by the front door, so I can hand them out to interested parties and presumably earn a sizeable commission on any new orders...or not.
Busy day tomorrow.....(AS),,,,,find the foul sewer connection which I've lost under a pile of mud. Finalise the order for the kitchen, and take delivery of 110 sq.metres of block paving for the driveway area. Now I haven't quite decided where it can all go yet......but it can't go on the grass verge opposite!!!!!
Met Rudgier ( our Huf Project Manager) on Wednesday evening who had been to Ireland and Exeter before arriving at ours at around 6pm. Busy these Germans!!!! Afterwards he was back to Heathrow.
It was the first time inside for Pam and she started talking about the layout and how it might have been possible to change things, but somehow she never finished the conversation because I guess she realised everything was being put in place, with pipes and cables, hundreds of cables everywhere. It was too late. (well I didn't want it changed anyway)
Downstairs in the sous - sol (basement ) in the plant room all these cables came to one spectacular finish. We are not building an aircraft here I thought, but why so many cables???? I was later to discover when Colin ( the electrician) arrived that these were to be individually wired in to a fuse box which would have been fit for an aircaraft!!!! Not the minature fuse bopxes we have in the UK, this is big, very big. In the same area ( they call it the plant room) is housed a boiler the size of a brewery silo. All the plumbing to and from it is superbly executed, a veritable work of art in 15mm copper pipe.
Anyway, back upstairs we were told that the floor screeds would go in the week before Christmas and then they would switch on the heating to dry the house out.
At this point I had to break the news that neither the Gas nor the electricty services were in, nor was there any prospect of this next eyar, let alone before Christmas!!!
Rudiger calmly offered an alternative which involved driving some space heaters from Germany, and we agreed that might be necessary if the miracle of connection was not to happen.
I've had plenty of comment from the near neighbours about the state of the verge opposite. Well its not us you see.....its other vehicles that go up on the verge cos the Huf Vans ( the three of them) park outside. I will be out there this week with a fork and a few turves to keep them quiet...or perhaps I'll leave it till after Christmas. ( The reindeer might chew it up on their way round or better still, the electricity contractors might damage it further when they lay the service to the house).
Plenty of positive comment though from the passers by............its quite handy because Huf leave a bundle of brochures about the 'Huf Dream' by the front door, so I can hand them out to interested parties and presumably earn a sizeable commission on any new orders...or not.
Busy day tomorrow.....(AS),,,,,find the foul sewer connection which I've lost under a pile of mud. Finalise the order for the kitchen, and take delivery of 110 sq.metres of block paving for the driveway area. Now I haven't quite decided where it can all go yet......but it can't go on the grass verge opposite!!!!!
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