Can't quite believe the last post on this blog was 8 months ago. It has to be said that the push towards Christmas 2015 kind of blew our wad so to speak, and we lost the house mojo a bit. However, there's been more progress than has been reported here, so I'll have to get my finger out and post up some other pics and stories. But for today, this probably looks like we're going backwards!
We decided we needed to have a bit of a push - we'd got 'kind of' comfortable living the way the house was (in that we'd got used to it, and living with it seemed preferable - just - to doing something about it). So we cracked on a bit. The things we needed to do were finish off some of the more boring bits (CAT5E wiring & intruder alarm wiring), and one of the things that was really annoying me about this was that the floorboards were not secured down, and therefore clunked all the time when you walked on them.
I took this shot just as we'd torn some more wallpaper off! You can see the CAT5E cable disappearing off to the left. That's going through the ceiling of the office where I'm writing this. The master bedroom is through the door at the end. There's a few floorboards up in there. I'm leaving some cable coiled up under the floor in there. It will allow me to close up the floor in the hallway, but carry on in the bedroom later.
And there's the completed floor. Not really, but every floorboard is screwed down solid. This view is looking out of the master bedroom along the same hallway as the picture above. That coil of cable on the left is going up to the loft. There'll be a stud wall about where it is. That will make a small dressing room just outside the master bedroom.
We decided we needed to have a bit of a push - we'd got 'kind of' comfortable living the way the house was (in that we'd got used to it, and living with it seemed preferable - just - to doing something about it). So we cracked on a bit. The things we needed to do were finish off some of the more boring bits (CAT5E wiring & intruder alarm wiring), and one of the things that was really annoying me about this was that the floorboards were not secured down, and therefore clunked all the time when you walked on them.
This shot shows the plumbing more than anything. The central heating system has two zones, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. The underfloor heating for the kitchen I suppose counts as one more.
I took this shot just as we'd torn some more wallpaper off! You can see the CAT5E cable disappearing off to the left. That's going through the ceiling of the office where I'm writing this. The master bedroom is through the door at the end. There's a few floorboards up in there. I'm leaving some cable coiled up under the floor in there. It will allow me to close up the floor in the hallway, but carry on in the bedroom later.
And there's the completed floor. Not really, but every floorboard is screwed down solid. This view is looking out of the master bedroom along the same hallway as the picture above. That coil of cable on the left is going up to the loft. There'll be a stud wall about where it is. That will make a small dressing room just outside the master bedroom.
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