The boiler house is complete apart from the silo door and the wood finish. They're laying the cable around the estate now and preparing for the first set of houses to have their heat exchangers (interface units) installed. The contractors, Douch Partners, are doing an excellent job. They are arranging for a local firm to supply the units and this means they are on hand to look after them when we're up and running (not that they need much attention, because they are very basic technology.) The building is beautifully designed. The weather has delayed the pipe laying. It's a new experience for the contractors. They had a training session for the electrofusion equipment at the beginning of January and now have developed the technique, so it's going smoothly now. The weather has held things up. They realised that it's quicker not to work in bad weather, but to make sure they can go through the complete process for each stage of the pipe laying so it doesn't get rained on or covered in snow. It is causing major disruption as you can imagine. Everyone seems willing to put up with it, because they are very excited about the prospect of having heat from a biomass system.
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