Plastered

We are officially alcoholics but that aside, we've had two plasterers in today and things are looking up again.

Here is the living room:
and here is the kitchen:
The workers are back. Here is Mum inspecting the bedroom:
This is the water tank above the 3rd bedroom that is/was falling through the ceiling:

Some nice pictures that have nothing to do with the house

see more of my pictures here

Rant (possibly a very boring post but will make me feel so much better)

It's all going wrong.

The plasterer and electrician turned up at the same time this morning to work on the same room. Not our fault, I must add. The plasterer needed to wait for the electrician to finish so announced that the work wouldn't be finished until after Christmas. Nightmare! This means that the kitchen units can't be fitted until after the plaster dries. Think we could be talking a month delay but we'll find out at the end of the week.

We've had trouble after trouble with the skip. I went round tonight to drop the bathroom mirror off (which has been cut the wrong size) and noticed that someone has dumped a radiator on the road next to our skip. What is all that about? It isn't even our radiator and the skip is overflowing so really it has nothing to do with us but I'm sure that the neighbors will not see it that way.

Tonight I'm having a few glasses of wine and have wrapped all the Christmas present so am feeling a lot better already.

Aah! Was just about to post this and the plumber called. We need to pay an additional £400+ to move the water tank that is falling through the ceiling in the bedroom.

Thanks for reading.

Soot and dust everywhere

The kitchen and 3rd bedroom ceilings have been taken down and soot and dust is everywhere. I can't believe that the workmen didn't close the doors to contain it in the two rooms they were working in. It is even in the rooms that had closed doors but only a thin layer. Thank God we did all of this at once and before moving in.

This is the underneath of the 3rd bedroom floor from the kitchen

This is the roof from the kitchen. There are about three or four old wasps nests and one of them is huge, about 30cm long and wide.

The kitchen with the opened up chimneybreast

The new bathroom covered in dust and soot

It scrubbed up well although probably not for long. Alan has cut the door to size and fitted it so it should keep most of the mess out, hopefully.
I think the damp proofing has been redone, as there was lots of drilling going on last week (according to our neighbour).

Alan is turning out to be quite a handyman. He has emptied the water tank that was pushing down on the beams in bedroom 3 so it should be fixed this week and a new ceiling put up.

The kitchen should also be re-plastered after a little more brickwork to the chimneybreast.

Just wanted to post one more picture. The bedroom fireplace is still not quite finished but nearly there.

Off to bed now. I'm not used to this hard work so I'm shattered.

I love it!

The bathroom is fantastic. I am so pleased that everything has fitted in perfectly and I can't wait to get in that bath. It still needs a few bits done to it and I didn't have my camera but will post pictures soon. It's getting so exciting!

More work was done on the kitchen today and the fireplace is also looking good.

We're getting somewhere

OK, so it is a strange person who gets excited over a kitchen that looks like this:

and a bathroom that doesn't even have a bath in like this:

...but it makes our plans seem realistic at last and we can really see it all coming together now things are moving ahead. The kitchen seems so much bigger and I'm very pleased with the bathroom tiles. However, I'm still slightly worrying about the bath fitting in.

The bedroom is almost finished too. We need to put up the curtain rail, make the curtains, touch up the paint round the fireplace and apply one more coat of paint on the door. The furniture is arriving 2nd week in January and we might move the bed in this weekend.

Mess, mess and more mess

We really are progressing with things but as you can see, it looks like we're going backwards.

Floorboards up for no reason at all and tiles ready for bathroom
Alan at what was the kitchen sink
Kitchen sink in hallway

The living room and bedroom floors have been done. They are much lighter than we thought they would be but have a really lovely finish. Photos to come.

The bathroom has had a bit of a delay for no reason but should be finished by the 15th, we hope.

The plasterer is coming back to do the living room walls next week as Alan finally managed to get all of that nightmare wallpaper off.