Well, downstairs is practically plasterboarded. We are just waiting until Gary the sparky comes on saturday and he can hopefully finish up the kitchen area and Geoff and the guys can finish plaster boarding the big room. The bathroom is boarded and we have a little cupboard at the top of the stairs.
Hopefully not too much electrics work to go, apart from the big switch over when we stop using the old board and cables and move to the new (as yet unfitted) consumer unit - which will be huge going by the cables hanging in the front hall..... then we can get the new light fittings up and have something other than a single bulb in the main room.
Cooker hood is due today, going to order the fridge this afternoon, ovens, sink and hob on order from Biasco due week after next, bath due next week (in stock, but no taps yet), flooring company coming on sunday to measure up and show us some samples, and Hilarys are coming on wednesday to measure up for blinds...... should be a busy couple of weeks.
Plus the rear porch should start going again next weekend and when the wind dies down we'll get Geoff to replace the ridge tiles and do the last of the flashing on the rear roof.
Friday 18 January 2008
Monday 14 January 2008
January update - visible progress
These pictures were taken on 12th december last year. You can see how much cable has gone into the main room...
Some plasterboard was up, but not a lot.
The woodwork is the false ceiling to level the main room and hide all the beams.
This is the vaulted ceiling. We have 2 lights going on this vertical wall so we can put up some pictures.... gonna need a long feather duster!
On the 19th december it looked like this before we went away.
By the 10th jan it looked like this:
This is the re-instated snug wall with a new doorway.
The doors to the front hall and the kids room.
The guys working in the main room - you can see all the plasterboarding on the ceiling. This is the the only light in the room!
The vaulted ceiling and Velux look really good now.
This is the new door from the rear hall into the main room. Going through here is pretty risky at the moment as there is almost no floor whilst the soil pipes for the downstairs loo are re-laid - they used to block as they join another pipe - urgh....
Recycling in action - the door from the kid's bedroom does duty as a temporary back door. At least we're warm now. Thanks to Joe and Eric from Churchtown plumbing and heating for getting the new boiler and tank up and running last week. Upstairs was warm straight away even running the rads at the 50 degrees the UFH uses, but after 3 or 4 days the UFH has really started to work and downstairs is comfortable in a t-shirt most of the time now. Considering the state of the back door and that the front door hasn't been fitted completely, and we have no internal doors, that's really good news.
Some plasterboard was up, but not a lot.
The woodwork is the false ceiling to level the main room and hide all the beams.
This is the vaulted ceiling. We have 2 lights going on this vertical wall so we can put up some pictures.... gonna need a long feather duster!
On the 19th december it looked like this before we went away.
By the 10th jan it looked like this:
This is the re-instated snug wall with a new doorway.
The doors to the front hall and the kids room.
The guys working in the main room - you can see all the plasterboarding on the ceiling. This is the the only light in the room!
The vaulted ceiling and Velux look really good now.
This is the new door from the rear hall into the main room. Going through here is pretty risky at the moment as there is almost no floor whilst the soil pipes for the downstairs loo are re-laid - they used to block as they join another pipe - urgh....
Recycling in action - the door from the kid's bedroom does duty as a temporary back door. At least we're warm now. Thanks to Joe and Eric from Churchtown plumbing and heating for getting the new boiler and tank up and running last week. Upstairs was warm straight away even running the rads at the 50 degrees the UFH uses, but after 3 or 4 days the UFH has really started to work and downstairs is comfortable in a t-shirt most of the time now. Considering the state of the back door and that the front door hasn't been fitted completely, and we have no internal doors, that's really good news.
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