Sunday, March 09, 2008
Plasterboarding started
It's taken along time to get here but the plaster boarding has finally started. Only one ceiling mine, but it's a start.
The plasterboard delivery didn't come until Monday this week, 150 sheets, three pallet loads. Monday afternoon was very tiring moving all the boards inside. It wasn't helped by the wind along with rain and hail showers. We had to keep stopping and covering the boards, then rushing between breaks in the weather. The plasterboard comes in pairs stuck together with a strip of paper each end. We started by moving them in pairs, but by the end of the afternoon two sheets was too heavy and we had to split each pair and move them singularly. Exhausting.
Whilst waiting for the plaster boards the other half of the house upstairs has been floorboarded in a similar way to before. The first side took two days to complete but this half took three days. The problem was that the existing oak floorboards were very uneven and warped with some large height differences (up to 50mm) in places. I used some large sheets of chipboard/OSB3 in the center of the room to pack up the floor but nearly every board required additional packing wedges and shims to level everything off towards the edges of the room. At least I've now got a fairly level and flat floor to work from.
The other jobs this last week of so was to put up some studwork around the edges of the room and fit the framework for a suspended toilet in the bathroom. The suspended toilet kit comes with a metal frame with the cistern/flush integrated into the construction and then the bowl is bolted on later after tiling. They are a little more expensive but save quite a bit of space and are easier to clean as you can just mop underneath.
The garden has also seen some changes. Debbie has been over the garden with a rotovator to breakup and level the soil after the diggers churned it all up putting in the septic tanks. We do have a garden plan, but the lack of time and huge number of jobs, I think we are going to just grass the whole area for now and plant a few shrubs and trees to get things started. There's plenty of time later to finish the garden.
So with the ceiling up in one side I can start next week putting up the internal walls and doorways.
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Plasterboarding started
