I have had an email from someone who has been following our kitchen orangery extension project on this blog asking how progress is going and why I have not posted about in a while. They were actually asking in a round about way, if we had finished it yet! The answer to that is no …
Tag Archive: extension
Feb
28
Orangery Extension Part 31: Fitting The Kitchen
We have spent the last two weekends fitting the kitchen in our kitchen orangery extension. We had a group of family and friends round last weekend to help get the first coats of paint on the walls and ceiling, get the sockets cut out of the plasterboard and the back boxes fitted. I spent about …
Feb
27
How To Install Under Floor Heating – Ufh
If you have read the last few posts on this blog you will have seen that we have just installed hot water under floor heating in our new orangery kitchen extension. Several people have asked for e to post a little bit about how we went about this. No I am not the expert on …
Feb
14
Happy Valentines… We Have A Kitchen
I hinted in the last update post that there may be some exciting news just ready for valentines day, well the kitchen was delivered today. All in all it has been a rather stressful day. At the beginning of the day we faced ripping out work that had already been completed in order that building …
Feb
01
Underfloor Heating Install Finished
We managed to get the under floor heating finished this weekend and the floor laid. A really good job, and fairly straight forward to do if not a little fiddly. The main process was one of planning what we wanted under the floors, in terms of electrics, media cables, water supplies and drainage from the …
Nov
29
Orangery Extension Part 18: Plasterboard And Insulation
This weekend we have moved the Kitchen Orangery Extension on another leap forward. We have plaster boarded the whole of the ceiling out, insulated the party wall and got all the plaster boarding on that wall that we can do without the dot and dab. I could not complete this due to a delay in …
Nov
23
Satellite Has Arrived
The Satellite that I ordered yesterday has arrived. It gives me a little puzzle to sort out, how it all goes together and where best to hang it on the house. I anticipate it going on the drive wall above the Orangery. This will allow me to point it in the correct direction, it will …
Nov
22
Orangery Extension Part 17: First Fix Electrics Finished And Ready For Plaster Boarding
The first fix electrics in the Orangery Kitchen Extension has now been finished, it was a bigger job than we first thought mainly due to the number of lighting zones, switches and the basic configuration of the Orangery roof which means that to get anywhere you have to go all the way round the edge, …













