Upstairs Underfloor Heating

We've been debating long and hard the merits of upstairs underfloor heating as the insulation spec and the thermal mass of the downstairs heating coupled with the recirculation of heat from the Heat Recovery system may well mean that we never actually need to use it.

However, IF it transpired that we didn't fit it and we DID need it the cost would have been enormous as a retrofit. In fact almost impossible to do. Therefore, we took the safe option.

It's a wet system, the same as downstairs, but instead of being buries in concrete the pipes are clipped to aluminium diffuser plates on the underside of the upstairs floor.

Bi-Fold Doors - At Last!

Apologies to those of you who have pestered me for updates! We've been extremely busy adding more and more insulation, taping and sealing and mastic-ing windows. The photos just look like all the other insulation photos unfortunately.

However, our patio doors, which were ordered in March with a 7-8 week lead time, arrived this week! It feels like quite a change as we're now fully watertight and secure. Despite them coming from a different (and significantly slower) manufacturer we're pleased with how well they match the rest of the windows and doors.

Eventually we'll have a patio which will go round the corner of both of them and level with the inside. They fold right back to give the "Kevin McCloud inside-outside effect".