Lights on but no one home JUST YET

The electricity got connect last weekend and the electrician turned up this evening to safely stick in a few bulbs and check how we'd look with the lights on.
Here is a photo in the dark of the house with lights on.


Painter got going with his spray gun aswell over the w/end and it looks like Mr Bean was in and blew up a few cans.. everywhere white. Looks great and it'll be staying like that for a while.

Heating now by end of week is the goal, then we can patch up the floors and let the tiler move in.

Digger has covered in all the trenches for the services and is due back Easter week to dig out for the percolation/sewerage/drains/soakways. Off to read the Builders Manual Section H on this topic!

Time Flying by

Been over a month since last update.. what's happened. 2nd fix of electrics and plumbing.. so radiators are hanging, water tank is in place, oil boiler in garage fixed in, now awaiting the ESB connection. Fantastic weather since early Feb when the digger arrived, we've lots of open trenches now, for water up to house, electric connection to pole on sunroom side of house, pipes from garage to house and house to garage. its an interesting maze.

Here is a photo of the internals of the hotpress.... soon i'll need to know what every knob, temperate gauge and gadget is!


The trench out the back of the house -> insulated pipes for the heating coming in, and another one to appear next week for the solar heat into the house.


Once power is in, we;ll get heating going and seal up all the radiator pipes then we can start with the tiling downstairs and in the ensuites!