Work is progressing at a fair speed now. Much faster than I had ever hoped.

It is so wonderful that it now looks like a house and I can see light at the end of the tunnel. An end to caravan living. What will we do with all that space - fill it very quickly I should imagine lol

The timber frames were all stuffed with lots of insulation slab.

You can get a better idea of the size of the kitchen now that the dry lining walls are in place.

Phil is trying to make himself feel at home in the lounge. He only really sees progress at weekends because at this time of year he leaves home in the dark and it is dark again before he returns at night.

The wall is up now that divides the plant room, which contains all the manifolds and tanks etc for the geothermal and underfloor heating

The wiring has all been run to where it needs to be. Parts of the walls look like spaghetti junction. I think there are 800 metres of wire altogether, plus the telephone wire and coax for TV and satellite. So probably 1,000 metres of wiring altogether. I had the builders amazed at how many sockets I wanted. But decided that never again do I want to have "Xmas trees" of socket adapters.

We also decided to future proof as much as we could and so have installed a TV point and telephone point in every room. We won't need them, but someone may do in the future.

The plasterboard is done in a few of the rooms now

The pink plasterboard is fire -retardent for the corner where the wood burning stove will be fitted. The stove is mainly for emergency use as the underfloor heating will provide most of the heating needed. But since we get quite a lot of power cuts in winter and seem to be fairly low down the list of priorities for repair, we decided that if we can keep one room warm it will make life much easier.