11th March 2018

Here we are again, another weekend. Last week John was at Langold in his own and there has been progress. He’s managed to just about finish the boarding, piped up all the upstairs radiators and pressure tested them and plastered the largest kitchen wall and the opposite chimney breast wall in the living room.

I decided to go for a couple of hours on Friday night and my father offered to join me. It was a very productive evening and we managed to get all the socket fronts on the upstairs socket ring main. We then ran a plug to the temporary supply to test and voila - all upstairs sockets working. Quite a nice feeling as I did all of that by myself. It’s the first circuit of a few but hopefully the rest will be problem free.

Saturday and it was just me and the gaffer. John turned up with a Steak Slice for us both, it’s a usual ritual for him and Rich and I normally abstain but occasionally give in. John’s aim of the day was to complete the plastering in the living room. Obviously everything takes a lot longer when you’re working alone but he still blitzed it. I helped with finalising the boarding of the living room ceiling but John cracked on with the rest by himself. And he nailed it, living room completely plastered with only the ceiling left. My task for the day was to make a start on getting some of the upstairs ceiling roses in place. It’s a slow job but methodical all the same. I managed to get all the bedrooms done and the bathroom. Then it dawned on me, when coming to do the landing lights I’ve forgotten to put a twin and earth switch cable from lamp to switch. To be honest I didn’t know it needed one, I’d already dropped a 3core and earth in to link upstairs and downstairs and thought that was all I needed. Obviously not !! So that’s the first mistake of the rewire, but it’s not a disaster. There a couple of options, get a live to the switch at the bottom of the stairs and cut the board that hasn’t been plastered, or potentially fit a junction box in the loft and connect in to it. John is going to discuss with the electrician to get advice. Other than that little pho par, another productive day.

Today, although saying I wasn’t doing Sundays, I decided to go for a couple of hours to complete the upstairs lighting ring without the switch cable for the landing lights which can be added later. I took Sharon and she was amazed how much it’s changing even in the last couple of weeks although she wasn’t allowed to do anything but sit and watch. I linked in the two landing lights, and connected all the switches. Other than 1 temporary glitch success !! We now have fully functioning sockets and lights upstairs, even cut out the noggins to allow the bedroom light switches to sit flush. All the sockets are at regulation height and I’m quite chuffed with where we are at. If all the other circuits go as well then I’ll be very happy. Czytaj więcej