Renovation Project - we have an eco lawnmower called Edith!

Renovation Project - we have an eco lawnmower called Edith!

What a wonderful day today is, I have been into the garden and was welcomed by the sheep, they have finally appeared, I feel so excited I am becoming Felicity Kendal,’ from the good life’. Luckily we don’t have to do anything with them as Sue and Peter will be coming each day to feed them. But hopefully they will make their way through all the overgrown bits; this is what you call an eco lawn mower!

The rest of the day is spent connecting the remaining pipes in the bathroom with the new isolation valves, so each bit can be tested individually. We do really well and there is only one tiny leak which is sorted very quickly.

When trying to find the isolation valves I had put the question to a couple of the expat forums, which did not provide much help other than one person asking why we were using 12mm pipe and not 14 mm pipes which would be better! I have yet to explain that trying to change all the pipes in a 3 storey house would be extremely expensive and unnecessary. The water pressure in the house is strong enough for 12mm pipes, and we have more than adequate pressure in the showers and baths. I would advise anybody doing a project like this to be wary of asking the expat sites for advice as many still appear to use English guidelines and not work within the limits of France, however I would like to give a big thank you to David, who regularly comments on the blog, for his advice on connectors, as this was to be our last resort.

The shower is connected, other than the waste; this is because it will have to be moved to build the wall and if we had connected the waste pipe there was a chance that it may have split when moving the shower.

The studding for the wall goes up and some plaster board is added, it is starting to look like a room again.

We work till late again today (but to be honest we didn’t start till almost noon) we discuss this over dinner and wonder whether we should be getting up earlier and finishing earlier, but as we are both night owls, we decide why bother as long as we don’t do any noisy work after 6pm we aren’t disturbing anybody, and I really enjoy lounging around in a morning, we did come over for a different way of life and not dragging yourself out of bed at silly o’ clock is great, we still do more than a full day every day and this is our choice of working hours and we like it!