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Yeah the prices are just wild right now.. There was a 70% difference between our first quote on the cladding a year ago and when we bought it this year..
Yeah our joiner said the same, I thought it would at least have been better than the wool but he said it was much worse, poor guy there’s been so much so far! Looks like you’ve got quite the project going there! How are things coming along?
@Technics100 that’s really reassuring to hear! Trying to reduce drain on the system and retain as much ambient heat as we can for the times we’re not producing any power.
@ChainBreaker yeah very chuffed we got a hold of this guy, very detail oriented and seems like some quality work. Lovely guy and lives on island so apart from materials most of our build money stays local too.
@SasenFrAsen not quite sure yet but sure we’ll find something for it, part of some wee art project, or just bleached and sitting on a shelf? I must reassure folk it wasn’t that nice wee seal there was a photo of earlier in the thread, it was this poor wee thing that washed up further down the beach.. There’s been a lot of birds and marine life dying this year up here, puffins are having a brutal time up here too, so saddening.. they’re saying the storms are impacting the numbers but think there’s something else going on and aren’t sure what’s causing a lot of the deaths.
@ltc it’s just mind ridiculous, the skies here do all the work, I’m just pointing and clicking, no filters!
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Looks like you’ve got quite the project going there! How are things coming along?
It’s going okay thanks. We are so far over budget but nearly there on the main expenditure. It’s mostly the indoor trades now - plumbing, electrics and plastering. I’m doing a lot of my own joinery like studwork, door casings, architraves and skirtings - plus decorating.
I’m not sure about laying the flooring - I might need someone in to do that.
I’ll do a big photodump at some point but these show the size of the job -albeit they’re taken from different corners of the house. The red brick garage is gone and you can see the new garage in the second pic. And we’ve totally re-landscaped the entire site - a big job when the plot slopes about 12m front to back.
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Going to be nice and toasty in there. I’ve just bought a load because the price seems to go up by 3% every week.
I’m glad the joiner is doing the bits in our roof space. I cut it all for the underfloor heating and even with a mask on, it’s horrible stuff.