Thermaskirt

The Thermaskirt training day went off OK. Of all the invites only 1 person took me up on the offer of free training! Good on ya Pete, foresight! We managed to get the living room almost done although some of it needs to come back off & be altered/renewed. Somehow we overlooked chopping the wall out for the threshold kit and I've found a manufacturing defect on a section!
I then returned to tiling the bathroom for a few days which is now done. Well, when I say done I mean that all the tiles are stuck to the walls - just cleaning, sealing, grouting, cleaning & final sealing to do before we can final fit the shower & cover plates and then think about fitting the loo & basin etc. Took me ages to tile that room, 'brick bond' pattern tends to give you more cuts and as the tiles are 'Travertine' (natural stone), each one has had to be cut on the wet diamond wheel cutter. I reckon the offcuts will be cut into uniform shapes and become fancy coasters...
So the last two days have been spent doing the heated skirting boards. Yesterday was a prep day - cutting out the walls in the right places, fitting the insulation and brackets etc. Peter was back assisting today and we managed to get both bedrooms and 1 wall in the kitchen skirted up. It does still need levelling up and spacing correctly before I can throw the odd fixing screw in it here & there to keep it all secure. I'll do the top gasket strips once it's all secure (as they shrink back upon first heating) but leave the bottom plinths and corner covers etc until after the floor coverings are all down. At some point I also need to connect it up to the boiler flow & return so it can be filled up & tested.
It is super time consuming though. I reckon I could of fitted all the rads and piped it all up in two days. So far we've been on the heated skirting's for three days and there's still the hall to do, top & bottom gaskets and all the covers and all the piping up. I reckon there's at least another three days work to see it finished making it three hundred percent more expensive on the labour alone without taking into account the huge cost of the Thermaskirt itself which is probably around four times what radiators would of cost. It does look good though. It'll be real nice to not see rads on the walls. Unfortunately I'll need to fit a decorative rad in the kitchen as 1 wall of heated skirting won't provide enough heat for the room. I could've used heated skirting around the kitchen cupboard plinths to get enough heat but I don't fancy trying to drag an integrated appliance out for repair/renewal with the skirting's in place - a recipe for disaster I think! So I'll need a groovy rad for the kitchen and there'll also need to be heated towel rail in the bathroom as there's not much point fitting the heated skirting's in there - won't really dry towels will it? But the rest of the Bungalow will be radiator free....
I've just won the three Westerham jobs too so the bungalow will slow down for a little while - think I'm going to have to cancel my holiday!!