Walkthrough And Decision Making

Yesterday, we had a site walkthrough with the builder and the electrician in a bid to determine where to locate the sockets, lights, swittches, CAT5 sockets, TV points, manifolds, consumer units and a multitude of other items. It took over 3 hours and that was after a 2 hour walkthrough on Wednesday.

Looking at drawings is all fine and well but it is only once you are actually in the house and walking around it that you get a feel for how you might actually live in it. And it is at that point that you start to realise where you might like things positioned. After all, the sun shining through the window in a particular direction can help you decide whether a desk goes against a wall or not (and therefore whether twin sockets are required on that wall or not).

It was slow going but well worth while and just a great feeling to be able to move about the house upstairs properly:

 

The roofers seem to be making good progess too. The slates are on at the back of the house and stacked at the front ready to be nailed into place this week.

The electrician will be on site this week doing his first fix and we should have a plumber soon to work out the pipe-work. It's all happening at pace once again but that only increases the pressure on us to make some decisions such as the layout of the kitchen. In fairness, we have the kitchen plan mapped out using the Alno Kitchen Planner software though the resulting kitchen it has produced looks like it will cost ~ £40K. In effect, though, we are looking at a straight run with upper units and a 2.4m island. We took the opportunity to lay out planks onsite to see how it would look (and included Jackie in the shot for scaling purposes):

The major issue we have been facing as part of our walkthroughs, however, is the positioning of a single stud wall in the master bedroom. Why such a simple thing should cause so much grief is a mystery but the issue boils down to having either additional space given over to the bedroom which will make it look impressive; or giving space over to storage (because you can't have too much storage). The storage argument seems to be gathering momentum just now and I've no doubt it will win within the next few hours. All that will remain will be how do we attach doors to the stud wall so that we can get access to this storage! That, my friends, is one for the interior designer in the family!