The piping has gone in for the bathrooms. The green plasterboard is waterproof - Well in theory it is anyway

There is a very long pipe run to the kitchen sink. The price that copper has climbed to, this makes it a very expensive sink.

Work has started on lining the window openings. The main bedroom with its matching door and window

The French windows

My strange little quirky window. It used to be the hatch for moving grain from the grain-dryer to the rolling mill.

I discovered today just how good the windows are. I specified windows with one half of them opening. It now seems that not only does that half open, but it can also be opened at the top as in tilt and turn. It gets even better, because once you have opened the window in the standard way, there is a hidden lever which opens the other half of the window as well.

It has been a week of problems. If I hadn't been at home already, I would have run away and gone home. The window sills are such odd sizes that they will all have to be made individually. I decided that since they are going to be painted, MDF would work well. A sheet of MDF is 1200mm wide, the window sills need to be 650mm wide. It will take a full sheet for each sill.

I finally ordered the twin wall steel flue for the woodburning stove. £5 change out of £1,000 - ouch !!

We decided that the window reveals and sills in the kitchen will be tiled. I have now noticed that the beautiful granite mullions have lumps on the back that protrude almost 2inches. We dare not try and cut it away as they are quite fragile. They will have to be boxed in before tiles can be put on.