The sun sets in the East!

Pete and I were at the top of the drive today when a young bloke tried to give me a leaflet about Upvc windows, and I told him that we had already got the windows on order, he then proceeded to tell us we should consider his solar panels, so I had to tell him that the roof wouldn't be facing the right way for them  to be off benifit, Pete then had to get involved with the discussion and put the poor lad right as he really did think the sun set in the East and tried convince us that we had the perfect aspect , it's been a while since we were at school but  some things never change!!!! he left rather red in the face checking if Pete was right on his i phone! ( we are going to have one  solar panel on the hip roof on the guest bedroom but i'm not gonna buy it from him!!!!!) - gave us all lot's of laughs!

Pete built a tempoary set of stairs yesterday, much to the bricklayers amusement!  And I have seen them numerous times today up and down!( with the sacks of expanding clay granules they have been filling the chimneys with; theses stop condensation forming in the flue)

The stairs on the finished house will not be quite the same as they will have a dog leg at the bottom and they will be closed in.

Here are the pictures of the two finished fire places and the stoves we have choosen:

LOUNGE

FAMILY ROOM

THIS HAS A BACK BOILER

THE BUILDERS HAVE BEEN BUILDING THE WALL ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE HOUSE WHICH IS DOUBLE SKIN. FROM THE PICTURE YOU CAN SEE THE DOOR WAY RIGHT FOR GUEST ROOM.

Dave and Pete have been putting the roof on the snug  today, and as I said in previous blog the crane is booked for a week thursday and Kim is taking the day of work to come and help as well, locally Mr Steel and his crane seem to be quite famous, well-known for the age of the crane -from the 1970' as long as it gets the roof trusses off the lorry and on the house ok ( without taking out next doors phone line!) I'm not bothered!

On monday a chap came to see us about the K rend (anyone got 23K!!!), I had put a note through the door of a cottage that has just been renedered in Aston, It is going to be quite expensive to have done...............................CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IS COMING NEXT!!!!!???????

.......................PETE IS NOW GOING TO RENDER THE HOUSE....THE WHOLE HOUSE.....apparently rendering is underarm  (plastering is overarm) so it won't affect his poor old elbows (that we have to listen to him harping on about), he had looked at the cost of Krend and done some research on the internet, and he might just do the sand and cement render, (if it was good enough for the victorians it's good enough for me) the house will need repainting but at least we have a wider choice of colours and here's the best bit ...."WE CAN USE SOME OF THE SAVED MONEY TO BUY A REALLY GREAT COOKER"

........................................................................................................JUST SIGN THIS DOTTED LINE PLEASE PETE!