The crane was on site yesterday and today lifting some of the huge chamber beams in place.

I have ordered the Tudor roof tiles today, I have looked at others including Keymer which I thought just worked out to expensive and Midland Tile and Slate which I woried about the quality and as I have already had the Tudors on the garages and garden building I stuck with them.

So it is all coming together now but I still have to decide on heating, I know we want underfloor heating but I cant make my mind up between conventional gas with a condensing boiler or a ground source heat pump. My heart says go for the heat pump but the wallet can make the sums work and to cap it all I had a guy out from www.skuddair.com who specialise in Air Source pumps which sit in between both in terms of initial outlay and recoup time.

Ahhgggggggg!!!

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The visit gave me a good opportunity to get some advise on problems I will probably come across once the frame is up, I have to say if I thought it had been easy so far I think I might be in for a wake up call over the next few months and I really need to keep my wits about me as costly mistakes it would seem can be made pretty easy.

One important thing that I realised was the underfloor heating I was looking at from nu-heat in Devon could not be fitted in an Oak Frame because as their drawings showed it should be fitted to the underside of the first floor, this is not possible with the exposed Oak of the ground floor ceiling because there is a layer of Fermacell that layes on top of the Oak beams forming the ceiling meaning the first floor underfloor heating will have to be fitted in trays between the joists before the first floor is finished.

A quick call to Nu-heat and they confirmed they have the tray system and are amending our quote, I would be interested to hear of other peoples experiences or reviews of Nu-heat – good and bad.

The first costly mistake averted!

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