Our neighbours did not baulk at our expansive plans for dominating the neighbourhood with an extra 10 cm of insulation and so, despite a brief e-mail exchange with the council over whether our pile qualifies as a “heritage asset”, we got an early Christmas present in the form of approval for the plans and for the building regulations. And despite radio silence from Neville over Christmas, he told us in early January that he’s ready to go and could the building start on Monday January 16th. So, it’s all systems go. I did some preparatory work over Christmas, using Google Docs to draw up floor layouts. And Islay and I headed to Ridgeons to pick bathroom suites (we’re getting a remote controlled shower, how cool is that?) So we’re in good shape I think. We wondered around the house on Saturday with printout and pen in hand debating the location of power sockets and noting down things we wanted changing. We’ve, as is inevitable with these t...