I try to visit the house towards the end of each working day, to inspect the day's work (and photograph as necessary). Sometimes I stay and do some work there too - the builders jokingly refer to it as the night-shift. One thing I've been doing is fitting the bathroom MVHR units...
The topic of ventilation and air flows in dwellings has not, unlike with commercial premises, been given much consideration until recently. House-building methods have traditionally led to what has become known as "ventilation by accident": in other words, there is enough air-flow through the building as a result of unintended leakiness of the fabric, that specific consideration of ventilation has not been needed. This has only significantly changed in the two most recent editions of the building regulations.
In rooms which don't have the original decorative ceiling cornices, we are installing suspended ceilings (plasterboard and timber studwork) below the original ceilings. This creates a free route for pipe and cable runs, which both speeds installation and reduces the amount of notching/drilling of load-bearing elements.
Bathroom areas will be ventilated using single-room MVHR units (see this article for a more detailed explanation), mounted within the suspended ceiling voids...
The builders have started work on the roof today. Straight away we've found out that we aren't going to be able to salvage as many slates as expected. Apart from that, it's so far, so good.
The MVHR units arrived...
I was considering a very impressive 1.5 litre vacuum flush toilet called Propelair, which I'd seen at Ecobuild...
