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Heating Installation Update

Well it has been an interesting week - much less traumatic than I anticipated, but then I was a little pre-occupied with the the loss of a friend.

On Monday morning we took up the rest of the hall floor:

Then the lovely men came and started to get to work. They did lots of things like tying off the hot water tank - isolating it so that we could still have hot water before draining the radiator system. They removed floorboards and took out pipes and removed the old radiators and then measured up and ordered all the new bits.

On Tuesday all the new radiators and the boiler arrived. I was closed into my office and working hard on my business and was pleasantly surprised by how little noise they were making. They put in a lot of new copper pipes and fitted the new radiators:

I realise you can only get so excited about radiators, so I will spare you pictures of the other three...

The next day there were funny smells as soldering and things went on and the kitchen sort of got dismantled...

But we closed the day with an almost boiler:

On Thursday this picture was transformed into:

And then things happened like the old hot water tank was emptied, my Heated Towel Rail got delivered, more soldering sniffs and some thumping and banging as the lovely (!) antique 1970s fireplace became this:

And the hot water tank cupboard became an almost great new storage space:

And just to show how pleased I am, here is the towel rail waiting to be installed:

So last night we had no heating or hot water but the lovely men are busy at work as I type finishing things off...

I say finishing things off - the heating will be installed but that is really only Phase 1. But before we move into Phase 2 I will be off to the Lake District in England with my parents!