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June 2008 - Garage
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June 2008
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June 2008
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June 2008 - Rear door to Garden to be changed
soon |
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June 2008 - Door to Kitchen to be changed soon |
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June 2008 - "Utility Room" with recycling |
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June 2008 - Pipework from Bathroom needs
attention |
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June 2008 - This Garage Door will be replaced
quite soon |
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June 2008 - Antique heating timer to be replaced
this year |
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June 2008 - Antique Boiler to be replaced this
year |
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June 2008 - Rip all this old rubbish out! |
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June 2008 - It is somewhere to put the wheelie
bin |
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June 2008 - Lots of junk to be disposed of |
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June 2008
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June 2008
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June 2008 - Note drainage pipe from Bathroom |
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June 2008 - I wonder what the string was for? |
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June 2008 - Drain pipe from Bathroom - soon to
go... |
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Sunday 13th July - tidied up for the new Garage
Door |
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August 20th - The old Boiler is removed from the
wall. |
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August 20th - the new Boiler slots in - compare to
old one |
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August 20th - a close up of the new kit. Very hi
tech! |
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1) Fast Forward to the 29th July 2009 - the KWB
Biomass (wood pellet) Boiler arrives. |
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2) Close up of the new Boiler still in its
wrappings. By this time the entire garage interior had
been painted white and the roller shutter door had been
installed.
3) Tuesday
4th August - the new Boiler is unwrapped and chaos
ensues
4) Wednesday 5th
August - after some repositioning and some tidy up. The
new Boiler in position with a growing web of new
pipework.
5) Friday 7th August
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6) Wednesday 19th August - the KWB Easyire Wood
Pellet Boiler installation is now mostly complete. The
pipes await their insulation which will happen at
commissioning time. 7) The large white box on
the floor is a square 2m x 2m. It represents 8 cubic
meters of wood pellet storage which equates to about 4
tonnes. The annual usage should be less than 5 tonnes so
this is most of one year's supply. The lines were
painted onto the floor for loading purposes as they
represent three limits:
- 30cm distance between pellets and boiler
(for fire safety)
- Enough distance to still allow a car to be
parked in the Garage
- Enough clearence to allow the Garage door to
shut
8) Three tonnes of pellets were delivered on
Wednesday 19th August as seen here. The 15kg bags were
stacked so they overhung outside the footprint of the
Pallet, meaning they wouldn't fit inside the white
'box'. Two went in but the third remained outside. This
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10) Later the same day Mark had unloaded two
pallets and restacked the bags. It only took about 40
minutes. Now everything fits in as intended - including
the car! Note the Garage door is down in these photo's.
Compare these shots to those rom a year ago when we
moved in in 2008. Those photo's are at the very TOP of
this page. 11, 12 & 13) We now walk around the
garage as we did a year ago and take the same photo's.
Of note now is the white roller-shutter door, the new
boilers, the shelving and the fact that everything was
painted white. Obviously the car is different - now a
Black Toyota Aygo rather than the old Black BMW Z4. They
are similar in one way - both run on LPG. However the
Aygo is much shorter & narrower giving us much more
space in the garage - which was the intention when we
changed the car. |
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14 & 15) Now without the car - pictured the 20th & 29th
August - these pictures show the Boiler as
part-commisioned with the insulation installed. The
commissioning engineer was not happy that it was working
properly - the boiler was fine but there was a mistake
in the configuration of the pipework and valves that
needed rectifying. This was fixed on Saturday 29th
August with the final commissioning due for Friday 4th
September 2009. 16 & 17) 7th April 2010 - the
new wiring and meter goes in for the Photovoltaics. The
Consumer Board (main fuse board for the house) was
replaced a couple of weeks before. The big red switch is
to isolate the Photovoltaics. |
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18) The armoured cable threading its way out of
the garage and up to the roof to the Photovoltaics. |
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