After 10 months we finally have heat!
Sunday night we finished
spackling and painting the
newly hung plasterboard and our
long push to be ready for the plumber yesterday is finally over. He arrived in the morning and set about unpacking the
new radiators and setting them into position.
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| Morning of October 17th - unpacking the radiators |
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| The first radiator in position |
He then started fastening the brackets into the walls and soon we had
our first radiator up on the wall. After all the others were up he
decided to come back today to connect the pipes and valves...
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| Attaching the radiator brackets |
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| A hung radiator |
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| That evening - the living room's radiators awaiting connection to the boiler |
So this morning he arrived early to begin connecting the radiators to the boiler via the copper pipes he had previously installed just below the floor during the
"first fixing" back in June. The connection from the copper pipes to the radiator are done with chrome piping - those chrome pipes connect to the radiator via a valve that controls the flow of hot water. These valves are thermostatic, which means that each radiator has its own individual control that automatically turns off when the radiator hits the desired temperature - this will save energy and heating costs.
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| Morning of October 18th - where the valve and pipes will attach |
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| Our plumber connecting one of the valves |
The plumber moved very quickly and by the end of the afternoon he had
all of the radiators connected and starting filling, testing and
balancing the system. Soon everything was working properly...so we finally have heat! It's definitely another major milestone - and one we reached just in time, since the temperature started dropping this week and there's a distinct chill in the air in the evenings. Regardless of whatever else happens as we try to finish this project, it's such a relief to know that at least we won't have to go through another winter without heat.
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| A completed radiator in the living room |
