Building a house in Finland

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I'd be interested to know what the name of the material used is. The only one I've ever seen used in such fires is soapstone. Thats grey and greasy to the touch. I would expect that to be way heavier than yours. The last one I saw was near enough 10 tons!
 
It has all kinds of names depending on who is making it it seems. Celsius-elementti, Morenia Crovall, but all the info I can see pretty much says what I said, nothing concrete that I've found, let alone in english.
 
I have a picture of the components of the stove before assembly, me and my dad had to help carry them into the house they where so heavy:
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I suspect the difference in weight is that the heater I got is full of channels that lead the smoke on a merry way up and down before it's allowed to leave for the chimney. This is to extract as much heat out of the smoke before it leaves, IIRC 70% of the heat in the smoke is captured this way.
 
Never actually heard of those before, nifty design.

Here's more tiles laid down, the tiles around the stove. Looks nice I think, I made the pattern but a pro laid it down:
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Kitch is also done tile wise, just a matter of filling the joints with grout (I think that's the word)
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Long time since an update, been painting all month. Work first then a few hours of painting, then spending most of the days on weekends painting.
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Rest of photos are shoddy phone pics:
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Putting up wallpapers, kids rooms are getting moomin wall papers, blue for Daniel and green for David, though we think they'll share room at first and use the other as a playroom.
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Kitchen wall paper, rest of the walls are painted, that won't be hidden by cupboards and benches and wall tiles
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You have got yourself a really lovely house my friend. Thanks for WIP.
 
My fiance picked the wall papers, well I did like the moomin stuff for the boys rooms too. The kitchen stuff looks much nicer in real life actually and especially close up. When it's done it'll have a warm somewhat old fashioned look combined with modern stylings. I hope it won't look horrible/clashing (we did have an interior decorator who helped us put it all together so that shouldn't happen).

We put up the kitchen counters and cabinets this weekend and it's looking good so far. My brother in law who is an actual carpenter and who has built houses before was a huge help in getting all the cabinets and stuff put in, as well as reading the plans correctly. I could not have done this myself, there is a lot to know and have experience in to do this properly I can say.
 
Kitchen cabinets and stuff have been put up:
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Almost done painting
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Difficult to paint with the weather we had on sunday, switched from sun to downpour several times:
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OK, we moved in last sunday, it's been pretty hectic but here are some photos of what it looked like just after we moved in. A bit of a mess in the pictures. Lots of boxes and stuff still unpacked and other things not yet completed, but we're working on it and at least now we're living where we're working so things are way easier.

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Still missing the sink/wash basin and cabinet in the bathroom, but the shower and toilet works at least.

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Still haven't gotten the proper microwave and some drawers and hinges for doors are missing too.

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Well building your own house beats my odd chair or cabinet. Congratulations. It looks very comfortable, I hope your family are suitably impressed. Well done!
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hi dennis
thanks for showing us your home.
i found this very interesting - i love seeing how things differ country to country.
we will be visiting finland in a few weeks - one of the highlights of the holiday for me.
cheers paul-c
 

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