Hello and welcome to our Jamieson family blog page! We have set up this site to allow us to record and share with friends and family our exploits as we (at long last) begin renovating the derelict water mill at Little Ennochie into what will hopefully be a fab and funky family house!! This has only taken us 3 1/2 years to get this far (and two bambinos!) .... so here's hoping this blog doesn't run for another 3 1/2 years !

As a bit of an intro, the mill is located on the outskirts of the village of Finzean, near Banchory in Aberdeenshire. The building sits on the banks of the river Feugh with great views of open fields and the hills, including Clachnaben. We have been slogging through Aberdeenshire planning and building warrants for what feels like forever, but we now have everything in place and the ball is rolling!

I will endevour to update this blog weekly with updates and photos so will see how that goes! Please keep watching and here's hoping this thing doesn't bankrupt us!

The Jamieson Family

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Week 30 - Heat recovery ventilation goes in ..

Hello,

This week the mechanical heat recovery ventilation system eventually appeared and first-fix installation started in the Mill and main extension areas.  The unit itself is a bit of a monster actually, much bigger than we were expecting!  It sits up in the small loft space that we have above the first floor landing.  The ducting then branches out from there to the various rooms.  By design it will extract from "wet rooms", recover that heat, then use the same heat to warm fresh air before pumping it back into the other rooms - basically giving a constant change-over of the air in all rooms without losing heat.  It should be pretty much silent but we will be surrounding the loft and bedrooms with acoustic insulation just in case!

First fix plumbing also started this week.  Spaghetti junction wiring continued also!

A monster in the roof!
Plumbing getting under way ...

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