New Fangled Thermal Store Thing!

Today the Thermal Store has arrived, these are relatively new and hopefully will provide the hot water and heating soultion all in one.  It is about 6 feet tall and will hold 250 litres of water. This will weigh about 300Kg when full which is why we needed the double beams.

As you can see the stairs have been removed now so Ben the plumber had to get it up the ladder to fit it into place.  It has coils where the hot water from the wood burner will heat the store. This then transfers heat to the hot water and heating coils. There is another coil that can be connected to a solar thermal unit (we hope to fit next year).  The back up is an electric immersion heater which we hope to connect to solar PV to power next year.

Here it is sat in the cupboard next to where the shower enclosure will be.

Stairs!!!

Today started very well with me helping the joiner to fit the staircase. It started off with the first winder going in.

This was then adjusted, propped and leveled before the bottom section was fitted.

All looking good we took a lunch break and then fitted the second flight onto the winder.  This was quite fiddly but we propped it and glued it into place.

We then lifted the second winder into place and ......IT DID NOT FIT! They had not taken the corballed brick course into account.  We called the joinery company and left a very curt message.  So all this wait for stairs and they don't fit!  We did laugh about it, well as we said no-one died.

Bathroom space now complete

With the floor now in the next job was to get the stud wall in place. Without the stairs everything had to be carried up the ladder.

It was all looking good until Phil (the project manager) noticed it was 20mm out of place as the joiner had forgotten to take the plaster board into account.  So it had to be moved.

The small plinth is where the hot water store will sit, it will weigh around 300 Kg when full so needs to be strong. This was what the delay was all about.

We can now measure up the floor and decide what will fit into the bathroom.