Soil pipes

Robert — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:55:12 +0000

Today the builders put the soil stack in from the top floor bathroom down to the basement. Here you can see how the suspended ceilings work to allow pipe runs through the building:

The studwork for the suspended ceilings (and walls for the new bathroom on the top floor) is now pretty much all in place.

I've identified a firm that make replica cast-iron RWG, and they can supply some matching pipe and fittings for the original rectangular soil stack at the front of the property, to replace that dubious leadwork in the front bathroom.

The builders also knocked through into the previously inaccessible area within the basement today, so now we have an extra room!

Pipe and cable routes

Robert — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:45:20 +0000

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. Today the joiner has started putting up the studwork - and seems remarkably efficient at doing so.

Bathroom areas will be ventilated using single-room MVHR units (see this article for a more detailed explanation), mounted within the suspended ceiling voids. So I have provided the joiner with drawings showing where access hatches are to be located, for servicing the MVHR units. Having finalised the positions of these, I've also ordered all the ductwork.

The builders have moved off the roof and are now doing the wall-ties. We had a talk about the electrical stuff; I'll be going through everything with the electrician on Wednesday.

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Soil pipes

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