Where to start.... From the bottom....
Lounge - plastering
Andy has scraped off all the wallpaper from the other 2 walls in the lounge so it is ready for the plasterer.
Slight issue was when the plasterer tried to take the radiator off, the radiator knob broke off. Luckily he has a plumber friend who will come on Friday to replace the knob:
Andy tried using some foam filler yesterday to even out the plasterboard on the fireplace, sadly it didn't work so we have lost that plasterboard. You can see some really really old wallpaper under there:
The plasterer will add new plasterboard and skim over with plaster. Before-after shot of fireplace:
Kitchen Electrics
The cooker cable is in:
Dishwasher socket is also in:
An after-before shot:
The dodgy extraction fan hood situation is gone, but new socket will still be needed:
New socket above dishwasher (although still need to investigate what the plug is??!):
Hall plastering
The plasterer was very busy at work when I got there at 5pm manually scraping back the artex - a really really tough job, he has worked so hard. This is done and will be ready for skimming over:
Electrics - getting the bonding cable from the fuseboard to the downstairs loo via the bathroom and bedroom 2. All the cables run in the floor of the 1st floor, so to get to the downstairs loo and install the bonding for the water they have to go up, under the floor and then back down. A bit of a job as they have to go under the floor in the bathroom.
And bedroom 2 where they have lifted the floor boards to run the cable:
Bedroom 1 plastering
Is now complete! Looks pretty decent:
Some before-after shots:
Flooring samples
We will need to seriously start deciding as will need new floors, definitely in the bedroom and most likely in the downstairs area. Here are 3 options, all engineered wood
Top one: Engineered European Oak 3strip lacquer, £18 per m2
Middle one: Engineered European Oak Natural oil brushed, £27.50 per m2
Bottom one: Engineered European oak flooring lacquer, £26 per m2
Area for bedroom approx 3.64 x 3.65 = 13.3m2
Area for lounge approx 4.86 x 3.65 = 18m2
Area for entrance hall approx 1.8 x 3.98 = 7.2m2
Area for bottom of stairs approx 1.96 x 1 = 2m2
Thinking either middle/bottom for bedroom 1 = 13.3 x 26 = £345
Thinking top one for lounge/entrance hall = 27.2 x 18 = £489.6
Plus some costs for underlay and scotia....
Tomorrow: Plasterer will get on with more plastering (from what he said he wants to be finished by Saturday).
Electrician coming in early tomorrow (as he started at 11am and clocked off at 4p). Electrician needs to sort out bonding for water, bonding for gas, fuseboard, extraction fan hood, refix panic button/motion detector in hall, loft light and switch.
We need to email the boss and get him to tell his employees to also look at weird plug in kitchen and the single socket, want the downstairs hall light fitting replaced with a simple pendant, and Andy suggested we get him to fix an outdoor socket for the lawnmower (run cable through the hole in the utility room).
Lounge - plastering
Andy has scraped off all the wallpaper from the other 2 walls in the lounge so it is ready for the plasterer.
Before-after shot of the radiator wall (we have removed the bookcase/radiator cover, not sure whether to replace....
Slight issue was when the plasterer tried to take the radiator off, the radiator knob broke off. Luckily he has a plumber friend who will come on Friday to replace the knob:
Andy tried using some foam filler yesterday to even out the plasterboard on the fireplace, sadly it didn't work so we have lost that plasterboard. You can see some really really old wallpaper under there:
The plasterer will add new plasterboard and skim over with plaster. Before-after shot of fireplace:
Kitchen Electrics
The cooker cable is in:
As is the socket and cable going up to the first floor - had to run in under floorboards through bedroom 3 (so floors were lifted in there):
Dishwasher socket is also in:
An after-before shot:
The dodgy extraction fan hood situation is gone, but new socket will still be needed:
New socket above dishwasher (although still need to investigate what the plug is??!):
Hall plastering
The plasterer was very busy at work when I got there at 5pm manually scraping back the artex - a really really tough job, he has worked so hard. This is done and will be ready for skimming over:
Electrics - getting the bonding cable from the fuseboard to the downstairs loo via the bathroom and bedroom 2. All the cables run in the floor of the 1st floor, so to get to the downstairs loo and install the bonding for the water they have to go up, under the floor and then back down. A bit of a job as they have to go under the floor in the bathroom.
And bedroom 2 where they have lifted the floor boards to run the cable:
Bedroom 1 plastering
Is now complete! Looks pretty decent:
Some before-after shots:
Flooring samples
We will need to seriously start deciding as will need new floors, definitely in the bedroom and most likely in the downstairs area. Here are 3 options, all engineered wood
Top one: Engineered European Oak 3strip lacquer, £18 per m2
Middle one: Engineered European Oak Natural oil brushed, £27.50 per m2
Bottom one: Engineered European oak flooring lacquer, £26 per m2
Area for bedroom approx 3.64 x 3.65 = 13.3m2
Area for lounge approx 4.86 x 3.65 = 18m2
Area for entrance hall approx 1.8 x 3.98 = 7.2m2
Area for bottom of stairs approx 1.96 x 1 = 2m2
Thinking either middle/bottom for bedroom 1 = 13.3 x 26 = £345
Thinking top one for lounge/entrance hall = 27.2 x 18 = £489.6
Plus some costs for underlay and scotia....
Tomorrow: Plasterer will get on with more plastering (from what he said he wants to be finished by Saturday).
Electrician coming in early tomorrow (as he started at 11am and clocked off at 4p). Electrician needs to sort out bonding for water, bonding for gas, fuseboard, extraction fan hood, refix panic button/motion detector in hall, loft light and switch.
We need to email the boss and get him to tell his employees to also look at weird plug in kitchen and the single socket, want the downstairs hall light fitting replaced with a simple pendant, and Andy suggested we get him to fix an outdoor socket for the lawnmower (run cable through the hole in the utility room).
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