Off grid house build Orkney

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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