FRIDAY 27th June - yesterdays work

Plastering in the inner hall

Plastering in the inner hall

Plasterboard up at back of hall cupboard which backs on to bathroom

bathroom ceiling prepared to receive plasterboard - light from sunpipe

Plastering in the L of the sitting room

for the en-suite bathroom

Thursday 26th June 2013

Just a few more photos that I took last night - showing plasterboard up on wall to sitting room and pipe bends ready for the radiators

Wednesday 25th June

Not much to say - little things happening: radiator pipes being prepared, purchases include Mira Agile shower mixer; Renderplas shadow gap profile; lots more plasterboard; and more timber.  Doors decided upon, and a kitchen sink, and we have designed how we want the kitchen and have been looking at cookers and fridge freezers.

Big windows to come out on Monday - hope the weather will be good, and everyone is feeling strong.

Dot and dab and plaster boarding taking place now.

Will tell you more as and when, and include photos when any to show.

Come back soon.

Reina Nero radiators replaced - and faulty ones collected

Radiators replaced and they look very good, proper finish on them this time - they are matt and fit very close to the wall.

Midsummer day was quite productive, service void in the hall built and part plaster-boarded, I think we have used up the last order of plasterboard, more on order.

A big clean up has taken place and it feels like a house again, can't wait to move in, one day!

Channel cut for the gas pipe to run from boiler room to the gas cooker position.

Repairs made to the join of concrete slab of the old house and the new slab.  This was never carried out properly by original builder, and other repairs also made to the old part of the kitchen floor.

No building work this weekend, so a peaceful day, doing things in the garden, Mark putting down slabs in front of the art store shed, making it easier to open door and moving plants from that area.

Damp day today, after almost a week of sunshine!

hall with service channel and part plater-boarded

master bedroom and radiators propped up

view across kitchen floor

gas pipe channel

channel for gas pipe - from the most insulated cupboard ever

repair to old kitchen floor (showing changes from the original
1960's building layout, carried out long before we bought the house)

join between old and new infilled

Thursday 20th June - things that have happened over the past couple of days include.......

insulating and boxing in the skylights, and levelling the ceiling in the L of the sitting room

part of sitting room ceiling now plaster boarded

Not much to photograph at moment - slow progress levelling ceilings for plasterboard.

Long slow process levelling the ceilings - maybe this week the garden sliding windows will come out and get re-set.

Problems now with Reina Nero radiators

Unpacking the radiators today, in their beautifully intact packaging - only to find that they don't seem to have been finished - only have a basic undercoating on them, and no "powder coating" finish.  They should have a texture like a washing machine and have a finish like some old sand paper.  Waiting to see what is happening about them - replaced or others sourced.............

The ceiling has gone up in the hallways, and service battons for the kitchen walls.  

Have sourced doors, and will order them shortly.

Kitchen wall 

hall ceiling from kitchen

hall ceiling from front door

hall ceiling from sitting room

bedroom plasterboard

bedroom plasterboard

Plasterboard and condensation in the Coxdome skylights

With great difficulty getting the ceilings level, plasterboard is going up......

in kitchen

 

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Trying to level off the ceiling in the halls and the condensation in the Coxdome skylights 

The ceiling in the master bedroom ..............

Sunny Saturday

Today has mostly been levelling kitchen ceiling...... and removing render 

Render removed from lower wall

water ingress under window - after external washing - don't think that should happen

battening kitchen ceiling to make it level ready for plaster boarding

Plasterboard going up for the bedroom ceiling........ we are on the rebuild.

Excitement today - first of the ceilings is going up, in our bedroom.  At last it seems like we are getting somewhere, this is something that has not been taken down, it is TOTALLY NEW.  Hooray.

 The corners of the window frames meet and fit together now!

Earthwool Insulation, insulation, insulation - and OSB board later today - almost back to where we were with the electrical first fix at the entrance side of the house!

Lots of insulation now gone up behind the OSB Boards......