Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Bonnie shopper
Such good progress has been made this week that Carolines has spent
the last two days in the van shopping for supplies. Bits of pipe, wood,
tiles, adhesive, etc. We used up all the plasterboard finishing the
ceilings, so today she bought another 50 sheets for the exterior walls,
with 40 more coming tomorrow to dry line the other gite. Plasterboard
starts to get very heavy at the end of the day.
Caroline has laid the floor tiles for two of the bathrooms
upstairs, my plumber friend is busy connecting up another bathroom and
preparing for the first kitchen. In the process we did notice a minor
problem with the electric water heater, chauffe-eau or ballon.
It doesn't fit under the stairs in it's planned position. Everything is
drawn to scale on the plan - and fits - but in 3D reality, things look
different. Visualising 3D spaces from 2D plans, especially under the
twisting, turning staircase is very difficult.
Our water
heaters are about 150 litres in size and run on overnight cheap rate
electricity, heures creuses, heating up the water for the day. I haven't bought it yet, but the planned ballon
was too high, 1.8m, so we've had to make the downstairs toilet larger
and put it in the corner. At least the toilet will stay warm.
Bonnie shopper
