The Self Builder’s blog

While the building has been going at a fair rate of knots, the service connections have been meandering along like a broken canal barge in the background.

The builder has had nowt to do with the connections, and predicted they would take as long as it will to build the house from start to finish.

Hopefully they’ll be complete by the end of May, what will be at least a month prior to completion.

But, I suppose, as they were ordered, or at least enquired about, three months before we cut sods.  Then his prediction was bang on.

The latest to go in has been the electric, which I had a minor concern about the position of the box on the house.

I’d had a few minor panic attacks that the powers that be would decide the position was actually on the back of the house, and therefore not allowed.

It’s actually on the side of the house, and will be relatively easy for the reader to access, once they realise where it actually is.

The meter itself no longer looks very substantial.  I think it looks more like a large fuse, than your traditional bricks-wouldn’t-break black metal machine.

Sewer connection is scheduled for early May, and I think that will cause the most disruption.  An absolute necessary evil though.  After that the disruption to all around me should subside somewhat.