You know how it is: nothing happens for some time, and then everything comes along at once. Today was such a day. We turned our backs for a few hours to check the location where the boat is to be 'put in' and to have a meeting with the architects and when we get back the ground floor is a very different place.
Following the installation of the underfloor heating upstairs last week, our builder has finished the jigsaw of insulation pieces for the ground floor sub-floor. Today was the day that the Underfloor Heating Team were going to come and fit all the pipework and manifolds for the 4 zones of heating downstairs. They turned up on time and because it is much, much easier to staple the pipes to the insulation boards, rather than fixing to the joist in the ceiling for the upstairs last week, they were done in a few hours.
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| Making the jigsaw pieces fit |
Brief timelapse of the Heating Pipe Installation
The next step is to put the screed down to a depth of 75mm to bring the floor up to, well, floor level! It was hoped that this would take place on Friday, but because the underfloor pipes were fitted so quickly, our site manager got on the phone and secured it for this afternoon. By the time we got back to Cropredy, pumping was well underway and we got a quick glimpse of the heating pipes before they were covered. So we now have a floor which currently looks and feels rather like liquid chocolate, but apparently by tomorrow it will have set hard enough to walk on.
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| Liquid chocolate by hose, and a brief view of the underfloor heating pipes |
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| Smoothing out |
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| 'Tripods' show the required level |
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