24th February 2018

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed the lack of an update last week. Unfortunately poor Sharon had another little mishap. Whilst we were there on Sunday morning she managed to fall out of the back door resulting in her breaking her wrist. She is ok, she will mend but she really didn’t need it and was a tad upset and frustrated. The kicker being it’s on the opposite hand to her broken finger so she’s struggling to do a whole host of things. However, a week later and she’s coming to terms with it and getting back to her old self. I’ve not been there as much this weekend, I decided to take a bit of well needed time off. That’s not to say nothing has happened, read on...

During the week the boys had been up and done quite a bit more. Things really are starting to look different. Most of the upstairs is now plastered, all of the door frames are in so the upstairs are well defined.

Last Saturday once again was a full team although Sharon had the day off as she had to get her false nail removed on her broken finger. She dropped me off, made the troops cups of tea and off she went. My job for the day was to get the electrics in to the kitchen. The socket ring was at the door from the living room as I had already got it that far, so all I needed to do was decide where I wanted the sockets, fix the back boxes to the walls and get the cables to them drilling roof beams and feeding cables through before returning to the consumer unit above the back door. Not a difficult job but quite time consuming. I managed to get the wiring in and returned for the sockets, rewired the outside light, got the cable through the wall and sited the light switch for it in the hall. That just leaves the light switches to fix to the wall, wire in an isolator and socket for a washing machine an potentially put in a 6mm cable if we decide to put in an electric hob. Jury’s out on whether to put an electric one or a gas one so I’ll need to think about that.

The boys attention was on boarding, they boarded down the rest of the stairs which was a challenging job due to the walls being so far out. Also lots of awkward cuts around the hall too. They also completed the boarding out of the living room, in some places they were having to put more than one board on just to keep the walls upright. They also filled between the roof joists with insulation and boardedthe ceiling. They left a couple of boards off the ceiling to allow access to the floor in the two smaller bedrooms to be able to get the central heating pipes in and run them across to the kitchen. It has made the room look a lot bigger and brighter and you can feel the temperature difference between the living room and the kitchen.

We were treated to dinner at a John & Dianne’s in the evening which was lovely as ever and we’ve managed to come up with a date we can all get together and meet at their place in France which will be lovely and gives us something to look forward too.

The plan on Sunday morning was to complete the kitchen wiring, tidy up in there and get the upstairs tidy. We managed to get the whole of the upstairs tidied and swept, and quite a bit of the kitchen tidied before Sharon had her little accident which put pay to that. We spent 3 and a half hours in A&E where I seem to becoming a regular.

This week once again no shortage of work from JB & Rich. The upstairs are all plastered out now with the exception of the back of the wardrobe in the master bedroom., the chimney breast walk in the living is plastered, all the way down the stairs are plastered, the central heating pipes are installed from the 2 smaller bedrooms through in to the kitchen and from front to back in the kitchen. Also most of the skirtings and door architraves are now in place upstairs. So once again a great effort by them both.

I went yesterday morning and the boys didn’t go this week. I decided to complete my wiring in the kitchen and then pack up and go home and spend a bit of time with Sharon. I opted to put in a 6mm cable to supply an electric hob in the kitchen should we decide to put one in. If we don’t, at least the cabling is in should we ever change our mind. I mounted the switch back boxes and drilled through to the outside wall to accommodate an outside light at the back and put a switch in for that at the side of the back door. There’s now going to be lights outside both at the back and the front.

JB popped up for a chat and to see what I was up to and I left around 1.30. It’s made a big difference having a bit of time off but I’ll be back on it next weekend although I’m maybe going to take it a bit easier on a Sunday !!Leia mais