So this is only a quick one – but this week feels even busier than last week (if that’s possible!). This have really moved on in leaps and bounds – our air-tightness layer has been completed with the taping with air-tightness tapes at the ceiling corners at first floor and then scaping back the shallow artex ceilings – PVA (ing) …
Project Update – Update IX – week 7
Here we are in the seventh week of the job and things are beginning to be built… which is great – its an exciting time for everyone involved, us, the guys on site, and most importantly our clients who start to see the house that will ultimately call home begin to take shape. So much happens now that is hidden …
project update VIII
just a few photos to see the underfloor heating being laid today the photos above show (from left to right) the rig that the UF heating installers use to pressurise the pipes with hot water water to make it easier to lay. Tthe people we have used on several occassions are Flowmax – who always say they like working with …
Project week 5 – update VII
This week it has all be about preparing the groundfloor for the installation of the underfloor heating which is scheduled for today… and even if I do say so myself we’ve done a pretty immaculate job – it really is a thing of beauty. A quick thank you to the guys from Insumate who have been open minded enough to …
Project Week 4 – update VI
So the weekend has come around again, and this is my chance to update this blog and let you know where we have got to so far. At last we begin to actually make things this week (rather than just demolishing them!) 😆 We have lifted the floor as you all know and we have found a really neat product …
Green Deal Pioneer Places
Setting up the Green Building Partnership (GBP) with a terrific group of like minded and dedicated people and companies in the last two years, has led Bright Green Homes to a terrific moment in 2013. We have been successful in helping to develop an exciting project as part of the Department of Energy & Climate Change initiative – Green Deal …
Project update V
So – the job is already into its fourth week – how time flies… So – it is quite exciting at this time in any project, lots of very apparent and significant work is obvious for all to see, walls removed, floors taken up, the skeleton of the house visible for everyone to see. At this point in any build …
Project update – part IV
So – this is a very brief post, but I wanted to share this little video as one of our clients came and visited us on site yesterday as was a little taken aback that this had already been done. It was a little noisy first thing on a Monday so we waited till a little later in the morning …
Project update – Part III
So just a quick update… at the end ofour second week on site week we have managed to get the wall knocked out and the steel inserted to open up the dining and kitchen area – carefully insulated at the end of the beam to avoid cold bridging. This is to stop the beam creating a cold point running through …
New Project Part II
Our first week on the job was spent investigating what we couldn’t find out before; exactly what lay under the carpets, where the drains run, getting the water and gas turned off so we could start removing the existing bathroom and kitchen, having the electrician set up a site RCD (for safety), and discuss the electrical layout. With the help …