We’re almost at the end of first fix. They have started some dry lining work in areas such as the living and kitchen diner. The entire kitchen diner lounge is being built offsite so once dry lining is completed, plastering and painting is completed. The Yeo Cabinet team will install the lounge, kitchen diner once the flooring, decorating and acoustic treatment is completed in the room.
The field shelter from Chart Stables has also been installed in the last couple of days. Meanwhile, the rest of the ground work before we start soft and landscaping in the garden area has also started. The field shelter will be used for garden/meadow equipment storage and ponies. Katie is certainly scheming to have a pony for the kids. I call it slippery slope. We shall see.
We also did an air tight test last week. This was done before we started installing the savernake oak cladding. Ideally, you’d want to catch any issues before cladding is installed. The results are not far off the air tightness we are currently targeting 2m3/m2.h @50pa pressure. Or 2 cubic metres of air can escape per hour for every square metre of the envelope surface area, with an internal pressure of 50 pascal. Even with my small brain that’s still complicated. They reckon we could do 1.89 or less. The passivhaus standard is 1. I think that’s a tall order giving the expanse of our patio glass and the various roof lights etc. To be honest, close is good enough. We’re still going to do some more tests once the sockets are installed.
The wild flower roof is looking really good as well. We’ve been watering it constantly so it can take. The meadow itself that was recently reseeded with wildflower seeds is also looking good. I’ve got a video as well.
Here are some photos from the last few days.
Dianthus 