7th April 2018

Here we are again, another Saturday, another day of work. There’s not been loads of activity this week as John has been off, he went up on Friday and did a few jobs like clearing out the living room in readiness for putting down the new floor, and they also repaired the bottom steps of the staircase, removing the burnt wood wherever there was any. The difference is tremendous.

So this morning for me was all about stripping the paint of the staircase sides. I’d love to say it was a simple 5 minute job but I’d be lying. It wasn’t horrendous just quite boring and laborious and quite physical scraping the paint off. I used Nitromors to soften the paint, 2 applications and then left it 40 minutes to react. Then with a paint scraping tool scraped it all off. Finally, I sanded them all down flat and they came up really well. We decided to just do the sides as the headers and treads will be covered in carpet. John and Rich turned up about 10.30 armed with all the flooring to floor the living room and kitchen which was their plan for today. Unfortunately the builders merchants were out of stock of the wood required to build the frame so that job has to be put on hold until next week. So instead they insulated the remainder of the insides of the walls and boarded out the last little bits in the hall including round the front door and the ceiling. That job takes longer than it looks but again it’s a great job done. There are hardly any exposed walls left inside now.

I pointed out the slight opportunity about the light cables being plastered over in the kitchen ceiling, between the 3 of us we had an educated guess where they would be based on where I thought I had run them and where Rich thought he had put them before boarding. As Rich set about putting a hole in Johns plaster, I bogged off to Cooplands for the Steak Slices !! Upon my return they had managed to find the switching cable but not the two ring main cables. Looking at it I think they are the other side of the strengthening lattice that they put in. It’s been decided they will put a bigger hole in to retrieve them and re-plaster it back up. It’s not the end of the world.

Sharon came later on and she was set on painting. The two walls under the windows in the living room so that the radiators can be put on and then she started to cut in in the living room. Meanwhile I fixed the plug sockets to the wall in the front bedroom after checking the electrician wouldn’t need access to the back of them. I also re cut and painted the bathroom ceiling with a second coat and the same in the living room.

It’s coming together nicely, that’s it’s for this weekend as I’m off to London tomorrow for work and not back until Thursday.Weiterlesen