Spring arrived this week, and with it the plumbers and electricians to do some more to keep us happy.

We changed our minds about where to take a ventilation pipe and the ducts for the VMC (heat recovery ventilation system) This will be boxed in later.

Additions to the VMC system in the roofspace with insulated extract ducts snaking along over the hemp insulation.

The oak guard rails to the mezzanine floor, mortised into the oak frame.

Under the guard rails the framing for the balustrade panel.

Chestnut panelling forming the balustrade.

On this side we will have a long low bookshelf.

View in the other direction - waiting for me to do the horizontal panelling.

Sink and cooker hood plumbed in, but skirtings not yet clicked on.

After my complaints about the big ugly knobs at each corner of the solar collectors, the plumbers took off the automatic purgers and just left a couple of taps.

The framing around the ventilation ducts, waiting for the larch interior cladding.