Revealed A Nice Outlook

Still haven't managed to add any more plaster board to the walls. But have fitted the reveals around the 2 windows on the top floor. Then I can offer up the plasterboard to make the whole thing look sharp....in a rustic  stylee.

First off visit Sue to see her tiling.Pretty good, as it happens. Though she does have to go outside to do the cutting whilst wearing full waterproofs.

I came away from her place with a plank of wood that's just right for a DEEP WINDOW SILL.

Use Sues wood to make a window sill. First strip it of it's lumpy paint!

Tools on the lawn.

Wood around the windows

To enhance the light and airy feel of the room, I've LIMED the reveals, lintel and sill around this window. By doing the liming while the wood was on the work bench, I avoided the over layering of the lime polish in the corners which can look clumsy.  

Plasterboard On, well a bit of it.

Starting as I meant to go on, managed to drop a big sheet of plasterboard onto my toes today. Took a couple of pain killers and got on with the job, sort of.

Managed to do 2 walls.  This one is under the sloping soffits (it's a medical condition) . I had to get the insulating wadding to stay up on the wall as I sandwiched it between the silver membrane and the plasterboard. This section will have those exposed joists removed to accommodate the new staircase.

Stud Muffin

Tuesday 13.4.10

Stayed in all day waiting for  to get around to delivering. No show.Got loads done on the top floor so not a dead loss day.

Oh how shocked I was to wake up today and find our bedroom looking like this. Yes, yes, we all know it looked like this at the end of yesterday; see photo below, but, somehow, I hoped the mess was all a dream. SUCKER!!!  Now I've bobbed to the surface, dreamtime's been swept swiftly from my grasp, I reckon the  room looks OK in this piccy,

The window at the other end of the room also needs a lintel. That part of the room  will be a landing when the house is finished and will benefit from some rustic charm/character. I'm using an old oak fence post for the lintel. Again there is no structural purpose in using this lintel, it's purely pretty.

I had to rest the 'legs' of the battens on the garden fence as I worked to attach the lintel.I braced the legs It was outstandingly  unwieldy to lug up the 2 flights of  winding stairs to the loft. Pretty knackering. Looks really good now it's up. All I can say is, use new drill bits to work on well seasoned oak; metaphor for life?

Now it's up I can begin to envision the room plastered. The room plastered that is, though .....hmmm.... laters!!

Help Me I'm Stuck In A Snow Drift

Couldn't get into the workshop, because I've dropped my keys in there. The spare set I'm using don't have the right padlock key in amongst them. I was stuck with doing what I could with the equipment I'd already brought into the house.

I did more of yesterdays work, that is putting wood battening onto the walls. Then when I ran out of the RIGHT KIND OF WOOD, I began to cut up and attach the polystyrene to the reveals and the one chimney breast that must have a slim insulating layer. It meant taking off the trim off the walk in wardrobe. Now that looks rough.



Polystyrene lining attached. I decided to use coving glue to attach the polystyrene. The plaster board and the wood for the reveals (tongue and grove) are another puzzle in terms of attachment. But that's for another day.



I was plastered in little white bobbles, as was any plastic sheeting. And as for the floor .........

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Batten Down TheTin Foil

Not such a glorious day as yesterday, so it wasn't so bad being indoors for the afternoon.

Spent a lot of time putting the battens up, about 3 hours for a complex wall and one for a simple wall.
I've got another wall to do in this batch which will make about half the room done.

Sorry it's such a dismal piccy.

Insulating the Walls Of Our Top Floor Saturday 10.4.10

Began by by diluting some PVA and 'painting it onto ther reveals of our 2 windows,



Then I began to 'tack'  the semi permeable insulating membrane to the wall, using mastic. The fact is that just about anything will do for this job, as long as it 's impervious to water and will hold the membrane in place for long enough to get the battening in place,



Now we have a Sci Fi bedroom; NICE!

I've decided to go for lintels over the windows. They'll enhance the cottage look and stop the insulation falling out!  Ones an oak beam I just happened to have hanging around and the other, an old fence post which I've planed and limed. EVEN NICER!!



Tomorrow, with luck I'll Get most of the battening up.

Fingers crossed.

Tuesday 6.3.10

The electics will be buried under the insulation. I've dug it out and,  for the time being, will surface mount it. Later this floor will be re-wired.



Only need to reveal  enough cable to be able to bring the box out onto the new 'wall'.



Bubble wrap arrived. Oops, sorry, expensive, breathable, hi tech membrane. The 100 hammer fixings arrived too, all 10 of them. Feeling tired now. Can I stop please?

Went and cut up the studding wood. Used most of it already. It was free, scavenged. Probably have to buy the rest as I feel a need for it. Ouch.

Now this floor and the middle one has no lighting circuit. We'd better get on and rewire, because we're relying, here on in, on bedside lights; one in the bathroom and the two in the bedroom. Anyone coming to stay will have to make do and mend!

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Cold Walls , Cold Heart

Friday 2.3.10 

Good Friday

So MeWally will draw up the required plans for the stairs and I'll get the quotes when the holiday weekend is over.

Then decided to prepare the loft, our bedroom, for the insulation project, on Monday. MeWally will be at work and the materials aren't due to arrive until Tuesday. We might as well be comfortable while we're off for a few days. http://bloginell.blogspot.com

Monday 5.4.10

Got cracking on the loft.

Cover everything that can't easily be put into a dust free spot.



Need to create as much space as possible around the window frames, as the insulation boarding I'm going to use will be quite thick and I don't want it to overlap the glass.  The window reveals  have their plaster removed. It's a good opportunity to check the window lintels and repair them if necessary. Phew, it wasn't necessary.



The window sills will need to be much wider as the walls, once insulated, will appear to be much thicker. So they'll come and and be used elsewhere in the house.



By the end of this rather short working day, I had removed all the plaster from the window areas and the window sills and cleaned the room and taken out the rubbish.

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