Cabin Update

Shower house and decking

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Sandra has been making great improvements to the cabin while she’s been living there. First she finished off the decking which I had started with the use of pallets. This was quite laborious as it involved taking planks off the pallets, de-nailing them and putting them back down onto other levelled pallets on the ground. She did a great, sturdy and tidy job.

Then we both set about making a shower house a the back of the cabin which is fed with hot water from the Stanley No8 stove that is heating the cabin. The water feeding the cabin comes directly from the water tower and we were gratified to find that no extra pump is required for a good flow of water to come out of the shower.

Sandra is finding the cabin very easy to heat and seems to be able to make a bale of briquettes (turf) last three days. Admittedly, it isn’t very cold yet but this still seems very efficient to me and she reportedly has abundant hot water for her shower every day. We have put a standard insulated (direct flow) hot water cylinder into the cabin which would hold more than sufficient supplies for the needs of a single person.

It has been great to have such an enthusiastic occupant for the cabin so soon after we had it habitable. Apart from all the improvements and lived-in feel that it is getting, it is giving us an experience of what it is like having someone living in such close proximity yet separate. We have been considering putting ourselves on the WWOOF list and getting regular volunteers here and our experience so far can only serve to propel us further in this direction.

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