Refurbishment Programme Ahead of Schedule
After a really enjoyable Christmas, we've now rolled up our sleeves to project manage our largest and most ambitions refurbishment programme to date:
- new kitchens and bathrooms for all 3 of our self catering cottages
- a new plant room housing more energy efficient boilers and new pressurised hot water storage tanks
- the installation fo solar panels on our roof.
Follow the trials and tribulations of our refurbishmnt programme via our Blog - or alternatively pop back to this page once a week and read what's going on.
Latest news
The Carthouse kitchen and bathroom installation was completed on 17th February. Cockle Cottage will be complete on 1st March and The Dairy installation work will finish on 10th March. The decorators go in from 1st March to make it all look beautifiul again and the removal men deliver our furniture back in Mid-March, ready to re-open on time on 26th March.
Here are some images of the work done to date.
Cockle Cottage
Out goes the dividing wall between the lounge and kitchen, and in comes two new windows affording lovely viws of the fields behind Cockle Cottage. And that bathroom... it's finally been ripped out (horray). The kitchen units are now in and the granite worktops are installed together with the new splashbacks. In the bathroom, the walls have been boarded out, the new bathroom suite installed and the slate tiles have gone down. They need a jolly good clean and then we're ready for the painter.
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The Carthouse
We've also made a start on The Carthouse. The kitchen and bathrooms have also been removed. The new kitchen has ben installed, both floors tiled with travertine and the new bath is in place. The granite worktops in the kitchen were installed on 10th Feb. All installation work in both the bathroom and kitchen is complete. The painter arrives on 1st March.
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The Dairy
Similar progress has been made in The Dairy. The old kitchen is removed and the new one is being installed. The travertine floor and wall tiles have been laid in the kitchen together with the granite worktops and upstands. In the bathroom, the wall dividing the old dressing room from the bathroom has been removed, the first fix plumbing and electrics are complete and the tiling will be finished by Wednesday 3rd. The new bathroom suite will be in by Friday 5th March.
The Plant Room
The old boilers have been removed and a new enlarged boiler store/plant room has been built to provide loads of gushing hot water and heating. The new boilers and water storage have arrived and all the plumbing work is complete. Lords knows which valve controls what. We'll find out later this week when the electrical control system has been installed and we cut over to our new heating and water system.
