Preparation for Oversite

November 1996

The cold weather brought the Central Heating to the top of the agenda. The Oil feed to the Rayburn runs from the tank at the end of the garden inside a SuperSleve clay pipe. The same pipe will be used to feed water and Electricity to the garage at some later date. In the picture on the left oil feed is the centre pipe. The other two will be the drains from the two bathrooms which run to the inspection chamber in the foreground.

In the kitchen the Rayburn sprouted pipes. The bedrooms and living room already had radiators but the piping to them has been changed radically. There is a gravity fed circuit to the hot water cylinder in 28mm pipe and a pumped circuit in 22mm with seperate valves to control upstairs and downstairs

We are using 4 inch Cast Iron pipes for the soil stacks either side of the study window, the heavier material should quieter than plastic. The first few feet under the back patio are also cast iron because it will be close to ground level. We put lintels above the pipes with the next course of bricks.

We hired a diesel Mixer for the concrete that forms the subfloor. We elected to have traditional suspended wooded floor on joists throughout the extension. In the original house only the kitchen has a solid floor quarry tile floor. Mixing 8 Tons of concrete in frosty weather isn't much fun

By mid-January 1997 we had the subfloor finished and were able to call up the builder and arrange a start date. By this time we already had the window frames made by the local joiner, they were stored in a friends garage. We were having trouble locating bricks to match the colour and texture of the originals

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