Monday, March 07, 2005
Pass the blowlamp
Progress has been a bit slow recently because it's been so cold. Fortunately it's starting to warm up a bit now, this afternoon was actually very pleasant, well compared to the previous week.
My friend Ian has been making good progress plumbing in the bathrooms upstairs (waste and water) whilst I've been connecting up the first floor electrics by fitting all the swtiches, lamps and sockets. I'm glad I made a coloured coded plan with all the separate circuits identified. Once the plasterboard covers everything up it's amazing how quickly you forget what goes where. I had bits of masking tape stuck to each end of every wire lettering the circuits and numbering each of the switches.
It has been a struggle in the cold this week. For both of us we have been fairly static, either fiddling with small bits of wire or handling cold lengths of copper pipe. Ian has a slight advantage in that he has had a blowlamp at his side. At the moment I think I preferred humping plasterboard about or mixing concrete, at least keeps you warm.
| 10:36:44 PM
Pass the blowlamp
