More inside stuff on the daughter's room...

Got a bit of catching up to do. The last time I updated, the room was still with laths on the walls, and some plaster. I carried on hacking that off:

You can see the ceiling plaster's gone too. At this point I needed to remember to put the light circuit in for the room below, and also run a ring of socket wiring round this room too. I also ran 2 cables worth of CAT5E into the room.

Unfortunately, at this point I needed to get access to a little more under the floor outside the room, so I took the circular saw, set the depth, and then cut away. Unfortunately a little too much. Those two straight connectors are on the main flow and return pipes for the central heating. When I was don't with that, I managed to move an old lead pipe and that started hissing! Yep, we had live lead gas pipes in the house. Looking back along the plumbing, we had lead, then cast iron, then copper. I ended up taking it all back to the copper. The unfortunate thing about that was that the copper was behind the hot water cylinder, so I had to effect a repair while turned kind of sideways and holding solder and blowtorch to the pipework using the power of the force. Anyway, the house hasn't blown up, so I can't be that bad a plumber. Unfortunately, between leaks, refilling the central heating (which turned out to have an airlock) and correcting unsafe plumbing materials this took much more time than we budgeted and progress was slow. 

In any case, got back into the room:

As can be seen, I carried out the plan of extending the uprights on the timber frame of the outside wall of the house by using some 2x2 and then pushed 100mm cavity insulation into the gaps between the timbers, then 50mm in on top of that. Then I used PUR board (generic description for Celotex) to cover over, taped that up with foil tap, and then screwed plasterboard on top of that. I also had to make a new windowsill, as well as extend out the window reveals to take into account the wall is now about 110mm thicker than it started out.

Here's the room as at now. The blue plasterboard is Gyproc Soundbloc. It's supposed to help the sound not be transferred through the wall. This wall is in between our daughters and our sons, There's the same board between this room and our room on the other side. The plasterer comes tomorrow.