Month: March 2019
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How did this place not burn down yet?
The de-joisting is continuing apace, and we’ve come up with a design to give the stairs some more headroom, a place to put a light to illuminate the stairs, and a way to deal with the re-joisting. Along the way, we’ve found that some of the removed joists have the weight of balsa wood, and…
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Plasterboard goes up, pipes come down
Today has seen a bunch of pipes get cut and capped, so the builder can move a joist safely, the kitchen/living room wall has been covered by plasterboard, and one side of the steel beam has been covered with fireboard. All of the joists that need to be de-nailed have been de-nailed, and painted with…
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Cutless bearing – all closed up
Work was completed late last year, and Blue Opal has been sitting in Pwllheli on the hard waiting for the sailing season. With the chaos of Brexit and a citizenship application, I’m having to look into delivery skippers/crews to get her back to Dun Laoghaire. She’ll have a fresh coat of anti-foul on, and should…
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Small progress
Porch slab is laid, front door is back in place where it should be, and some more of the existing plasterboard has been removed to expose pipes and where to run the network cable. The plasterboard on the underside of the stairs has also been removed – not sure what for.
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Down comes the ceiling
Yesterday saw the complete removal of floorboards in the back bedroom (barring the ones under the built-in wardrobe), the insulation and BRC being laid for the porch, the outside tap installed, the water main feed cored through the bathroom wall, the gas main feed cored through the kitchen wall, and an attempt was made to…
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Re-joist, Re-joist
Alas, not “rejoice, rejoice”. When taking up the floorboards in the second bedroom today for the electrician, the builder discovered that the joists show water damage. He’s got the entire lot up now, and it looks like every joist in the back bedroom has suffered water damage to some extent, and all of them will…
