The second house during the second week
Work started on the second house this week and as we were repeating work that had already been done at the first house everything seemed to proceed very quickly. Although the tenant in the first house is remaining in her home throughout this project, the tenant in the second house has decided to go and stay with relatives for summer holidays. We are hoping that the majority of work will be finished before she returns home at the end of August.
Work completed during the second week included:
The roof lines had to be extended in order to accommodate the external wall cladding
- Scaffold up at the second house
- Existing heating systems removed at both houses
- Outbuilding reconfiguration
- Drains and soil pipe moved
- Roof-line extended at gable
- Lintel reinforcement completed at the first house
- Heating pipes rerouted in preparation for new systems
- Hot water cylinder installed at the second house
- Radiators installed at second house (not required at the first house as we are bolting on to an existing central heating system)
- Wood pellet boilers delivered (along with 1 tonne of bagged pellets)
- Wood pellet storage and other storage solutions delivered
- Pyranometer and heat meter delivered to site
We had some difficulty getting the boilers into location inside the outbuildings at the rear of both properties. The boilers are a lot larger than their gas counterparts and could not be brought through the house. Access around the side of the house was straightforward at the second house but we had to bring the boiler in through the neighbour’s garden at the first house. The neighbours very kindly allowed us to temporarily remove a fence panel in order to get the boiler through.
Wood pellet boilers delivered to site
1 tonne of bagged pellets was delivered with the boilers (1/2 tonne for each house). These pellets had to go straight into storage as the bags they come in are not waterproof and it was a bit rainy that morning!
After all the investigations with the lintels we decided to install new concrete lintels where necessary at the first house. The window openings at the second house were in a better state of repair and so we decided to leave them as they are.
