Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Reduce, Reuse, Recyle

We can now walk round our houses as stud walls are in and the property is currently being wired up with all the wonderful new gadgets. The amount of cabling is truly astonishing! Being modern and up to date house there will be lots and lots of sockets to plug things in. It seems strange all the electronics we need for modern day life; TV, internet and millions of gadgets to keep us going. I mean who can live without their mobile and the internet?

We have tried really hard to keep the houses up there with the eco credentials; we all need to our bit to save the planet. We aim to reduce our carbon footprints and more importantly bills by the amount of insulation in the houses. The under floor heating is super efficient to so we can still remain toasty warm.
 

 
 
 
 When building and moving home we always generate a lot of waste. I am not looking forward to clearing out the loft in my current house goodness know what is up there! Luckily we know of a fabulous skip company East Recycling and Materials who can recycle lots of the building waste and put it into other building projects. Being a relatively new company they are offering lots of discounts to. Need a skip call them on 01264 710689 or 07747865537 or e-mail them.

Up on the roof

Why did the roofer go to the doctor?



Because he had a bad case of SHINGLES...



At the present time Keiran has been up on the roof quite a lot. The roofing is coming along with the felt and battoning done the tiles are about to be put on to make it water tight. It looks amazing!



Kieran had his brother on site to help him carry the roof tiles up the ladder and stack them on the roof. Kieran who is a trained roofer has saved us lots of money, so we wanted to pay him back by letting him marry Sabrina; I think that is a fair deal. Good job Kieran has also been in the army as he can practice his marching skills again in August all the way down the aisle, to get wed.

The other lads have been plaster boarding the ceilings in the upstairs bedrooms and are about to get the stud walls under way.

We have also had to make a lot of decisions lately. We had a meeting a few weeks ago with our Uncle Robin (the electrician) to decide about how many electrical plug sockets, tv aerial sockets, phone sockets, light switches, and lighting fixtures were needed for the house. I never realised there were so many types of socket out there. This was also the perfect opportunity to work out where those sockets and lights should go a very important decision. Is there a socket in your house you never use? Do you only have one double socket behind your television? Why do people do that? Everybody knows that behind the television you need to plug in the tv, dvd player, sky box and games console, we will be able to do this in our new places.

Catalogues full of door options



A really pretty door



Sabrina has been busy picking windows and doors. She told us she would like us to have red doors at first I wasn’t so sure but after seeing the brochure she does have taste and they do actually look quite something on the houses in the brochure.