The Self Build Diary - day 29 - water!

Day 29 - the beginning of week 2 of action on site! The guys have cracked on with the steel work and you can really get an idea of how the layouts of the house sit and the size of rooms and areas, which is quite exiting, although not hugely accurate at this stage. Here's a pic of site first thing this morning:

The steel work should be complete tomorrow and the shuttering cracked on with ready for a Friday pour of concrete! The beam in the foreground is the front of the garage and the square in the middle is the kitchen and family room.

Yorkshire water also came to site today to connect the water meter to our site. The site was bought from an administrator so part of the difficulty is that certain elements of the sale are not warranted, so we had a big pipe coming out of the ground that water came out of and some cables popping up, so the fact it was a serviced site led us to believe they were our connections. Further investigations showed that the water connection wasn't ours and the wires relate to the streetlights. Tomorrow it's CE electrics turn to come and start connecting us for power.

In preparation for that we have build a board on site to connect the meter box to and for the basic connection for the builders supply, my first manual task and I have built a the board! I'm very proud! I'll get a photo for you!

Mrs G and I, went bathroom shopping at the weekend and have made some decisions about what we do and don't want in the bathroom. It's now her task to look out for suites etc, whilst looking after a toddler and being pregnant! She's busier than me!

I'll fill you in on the electricity chaps tomorrow!