ELECTRICIAN - NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE

I'm afraid i'm not overly impressed with the electricians work. I suppose I did expect the wiring to be set into the brickwork especially considering what he charged but apparantly our bricks were 'too hard' for this. Don't these people have the correct tools or do they just try to get away with as little work as possible?
We also have a light switch which switches the inside light and also the outside 'brick' lights set into the conservatory dwarf walls. This was wired wrong and didn't switch the lights correctly.
I have corrected this and I do feel that I could have done this wiring job as well if not better than the qualified electrician, but of course unqualified people aren't allowed to do new installations and you risk invalidating your household insurance if you decide to do this.

Finished on Target

Did we meet our Easter finish target? Well, yes and no. The conservatory is fully useable, however there are a few finishing touches to be made. These will be completed over the next few weeks.

The electrician arrived as arranged and fitted the electrics (more on that later).

ELECTRICIAN DUE TODAY

We're still on schedule for Easter completion. We have an electrician coming today to do the wiring. It appears that the wiring does not come under part P of the building regs, according to the electrician who is part P registered.
All that's then left to do is the floor, fit the window boards and cover the old house outside wall. With it being a 4 day 'weekend' this shoould be a doddle.

COMPLICATION WITH ELECTRICS

I did believe that the electrics in the conservatory would be a fairly simple job. All we need are a couple of double sockets, a light on the house wall and 2 external lights which have been set into the dwarf wall of the conservatory wired up.
So we contacted a local electrician in the village and he came round to look at the job. Unfortunateley he can't do it as it comes under part P of the building regulations, or rather he can do it but it would then need inspecting and testing by someone else, meaning it would work out more expensive. It appears that if someone is 'Part P' registered or certified, they can do the job and then test their own work. Anyway we now have an electrician who is 'part P registered' coming round to quote for the job on Thursday or Friday.

WEEKLY UPDATE 30 MARCH

Well, we're now back to weekends only working on the conservatory having had 4 days last week to give a long weekend to get the main structure up. This weekend we had Peter, the plumber in to move the radiator under the window and also fit one in the conservatory. This took all of Saturday morning. The rest of the weekend was taken up with knocking out the wall and fixing the new french doors which B&Q managed to deliver on time.

JOBS STILL TO DO

Next weekend we have the plumber coming to move the radiator which is under the window which is being converted into French doors leading from the house to the conservatory. We now have a delivery day of Tuesday this week for the french doors from B&Q so hopefully these will be installed next weekend too.
Other jobs still to complete are wiring of lights and power points, fitting internal window boards, flooring plus we need to tidy the garden up around the coservatory.

HOW EASY WAS THE BUILD?

Having almost completed the build it's time to reflect on how easy (or difficult it was). In all I spent 4 days on building however I don't start too early or work too late so I would say if I had got stuck in, 3 days would have been sufficient time. I wouldn't say that any of the build would be difficult for anyone with reasonable DIY skills however some of the assembly was a bit fiddley and tricky to start with and I just got the hang of doing some jobs when they were almost finished.
The instructions we got from the supplier were reasonably easy to follow, however I found the roof installation instructions a bit hard to follow as it covered all types of roof so I had to search through a bit for the bits relevant to our roof.