The landing work continues. I've had to use various shims on the studs to flatten out the wall prior to plasterboarding it. The studs are all over the place and the shims have been anywhere between thin cardboard and 8mm of plywood. The problem is a combination of the wood shrinking over the last 120ish years, and the original Victorian carpenter ( Read more... )

Stripping and sanding floorboards and skirting boards today. I took all the removable and loose ones out to the garden to work on. It cuts down on the dust and fumes in the house. The only problem is habing to keep dashing back in with armfuls of tools and half stripped wood every time it starts to rain, or snow, or hail. And it's done all three ( Read more... )

Glazed the bathroom door.


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Bedroom 2 plasterboarded. The landing side still needs doing, but still have to finish rubbing down the skirting board and floorboards.


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These arrived today.


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More photos from today's demolition.

Excellent work!


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Christine and Jo took down the landing ceiling today. This turned-out to be three ceilings. Ceiling one made of plasterboard (papered over), ceiling two (lurking under battens), ceiling three (the original crumbling lime plaster). Once again they've done an excellent job and I'm most grateful. Even with a dust-mask on I would have had problems ( Read more... )

Chris and Jo deemed my lungs too fragile to be around while the bedroom wall was turned into a pile of lathes, a pile of plaster, and lots and lots of dust. So I was kicked out of my own house (no complaints here) while they steamed into project "De-Privacize". I spent the day running errands, picked-up a bed for Chris, dropped off paperwork at the ( Read more... )