Breast Is Best

More plaster board cutting for me this weekend while MeWally got stuck into the stair well. 


THE SKELETON UNDER THE STAIRS


There's the chimney breast under there crumbling away. It's OK though, it's flued. We've decided to keep it and point it with lime mortar and then limewash it. There is an option of demolishing it as there's nothing structural to cause problems.

It's a lovely curved shape and will look fantastic as feature on the new landing - rustic.

Meanwhile I did more insulating in the loft.

You can see the battening holding in the wadding. If the wadding covers the battening, the plaster board wont sit flat, so a little time has to be spent getting it right. What with that and the carving the plaster board for the sloping soffits, it takes ages to do each little bit. Added to that, we  don't start 'til lunch time and have to finish by 2pm  (noise wise), so we get about 4 hours work done over a weekend.

The small space over the lintel didn't have enough battening, so I glued 3 layers of polystyrene (polystyrene  is semi permeable) into the space and packed out any small gaps with wadding.  I then stuck plasterboard on top. 

Still less  than  half the room completed.

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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