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Is the stove in the kitchen as backup for cooking, just for fun or the main deal? It's fun for sure.
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It’s going to be mainly as a back up for when there isn’t power for cooking or heating, but I’m sure we’ll just have a few nights in front of the fire too.
Had the guys come to fit the stove today but the flue is going to be going through the ceiling too close to the truss.. he’s said we could use a single wall offset pipe in the flue run to take it far enough away from the truss but that brings the single skin part of the flue about 280mm from the wall. We had bought enamel coated metal heatshields which allow things to sit closer to the wall, but the ones we have ordered are 1200mm but this offset would take the height of single skin pipe to about 1800mm… There are 1800mm heatshields available and we might be able to return the other ones and swap for these, checking with the building officer to see if this is the solution to fix this and stay on top of building regulations. Really wanting to avoid having to mount fireboard as the walls are all finished and taped and filled and painted..
We didn’t tile today thinking the stove guy would be up scaffolding there but got the spacer things out and it being clear makes it feel much bigger.
@hvsds that’s very kind of you, thank you! To be honest I think we’re going a bit faster, not surprising to be honest as he’s building his own house right and getting invoices in so stretching an hourly rate to pay what he needs could quite easily become a thing (I think it had!) either way I think we’re working faster and not taking a bunch of breaks and phone calls each day. Cleared the bedroom and took off the floor protectors and I’m pretty sure our grouting is better than his as well..@Aldosterone thanks so much, it’s been a dream of mine forever. Always said I wanted to build a house but to be honest I pictured a wee hovel built out of pallet wood in a damp bit of woods somewhere, nothing like this!
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Thanks, I’m really chuffed with how it’s looking! Think they’ll help the house not feel like a new build which is kind of what we’re after, want it to feel seated in and like it’s been there a while. There’s really pretty variations in the tiles as well. Not cheap, but our hope is they help hold the heat from the underfloor heating on the days we don’t have enough power to switch it on.
We got cracking again early doors this morning and managed to put the same amount down today as we had in the day and a half before that. Hopefully got the guys coming to fit the stove tomorrow so won’t be tiling tomorrow to give them space to do it. Started at the kitchen wall so there weren’t fresh tiles down where the scaffolding will sit for them. Think we’ll clear the kitchen and things into the second bedroom and maybe looking at wallpapering in our room or something.