Week 42, Day 2:

• Another good day’s work by Full Metal Roofing who have now completed the zinc over the curved section of the north roof
  • It’s not clear from the photo but there’s still quite a lot more zinc to install on the section above the curve, but that should be fairly straightforward (apart from dressing it around the two skylights)
  • Then there will be the tricky matter of cladding the fascia sections on the end of the curved section and a few more finishing touches – and then it will be done
• More work on the kitchen, of which the highlight was installing the cooker hood
  • With a whole-house MVHR system you don’t want a hood which exhausts to the outside, and it’s also a bad idea to connect an extraction hood directly to the MVHR system since the grease tends to clog the heat exchanger
  • The best approach is to have a recirculating cooker hood which will take out some of the grease from frying, remove some cooking smells (via activated charcoal filters) and then exhaust the air in the direction of the kitchen extract vent for the MVHR system – which is fitted with a fleece filter pad to remove further grease – to get rid of the humidity
    • At the same time I guess the MVHR unit will recover some of the heat from cooking and circulate it around the house
  • The Miele DA 7006 D Aura hood fulfills these criteria, although it’s not that energy-efficient itself and it’s not cheap – plus it looks a bit like a flying saucer which some people love and other people aren’t very impressed by (I love it)
• More plastering – mostly in the Dining Room
• More second-fix electrical – mostly fitting the isolator switches for the kitchen appliances
• More wall-tiling in the bathrooms
• More trimming of the cedar cladding around the windows

Week 42, Day 2

Zinc completed on curved section of north roof

Miele DA 7006 D Aura Cooker Hood