… at today’s image you will see the horizontal beam that I fitted yesterday. That will give you some kind of indication as to how wide the stairs up to the first floor will be. They will be fitted between that beam and the wall in the background – although there will need to be an allowance for the width of some insulation and plasterboard.
You can also see that I’ve fitted an upright into position in the new beam. This is level with the door into my attic on the floor above, and is where the head of the stairs will be for the floor below. To the right of the upright is where the bathroom is to be fitted – you can see the window that will be incorporated into there.
Yes, I’ve fitted one upright. And that will be the only upright that I’ll be fitting for a while too. The uprights are called chevrons – 63mm x 75mm and they need to be at least 4m long. Although the height between floors is only about 2m90, the chevrons need to project some way below the level of the floor so that I can secure the head of the stairs to them. And search as I have done all of the afternoon, I cannot find anywhere my stock of 4m chevrons. I’ve found the 3m and 3.5m ones, but not a single 4m one and that’s a perishing nuisance. I’ll have to wait until I go to Brico Depot at the weekend.
Mind you, while I was searching for the chevrons I discovered my missing beam. It was in the barn in the stack with all of the other new, unused wood. What a silly place to put it! Who on earth put it there?
Tomorrow I’ll be fitting the beam against the wall (if I can find my anchor bolts) and cutting the lets into it to take the verticals (whenever it may be that I will find them). I’ll have to think of something else to do on Friday which is a shame – I was hoping to have all of the verticals in place for this weekend so I could make a start on the stairs on Monday.
But then again it isn’t as if I don’t have anything else to do round here, is it?
It sounds like you need to spend a day or two going through your barn etc, making a list of the stuff and where each item is. It’s a boring job but at least then you’ll have less trouble and will hopefully find more stuff you’ll be needing soon. Also it’s better than buying stuff twice.
Shhh… Don’t upset Captain Chaos.
A day ot two??????? A couple of years wouldn’t be long enough to sort out the barn!!!!!!!
Dear Capt. How do you eat an elephant? Answer: one bite at a time. Find something, list it. Buy something, list it. The problem resolves itself gradually and the elephant gets ever smaller. Unless you like wasting time and money that is?
Capn Chaos goes for chaos management. Everything is a delightful surprise when it is located and a n exciting mystery to be solved when it can’t be.
I think that you underestimate the size of the barn and the amount of contents Krys 😉
And Rhys, I worked for an Insurance company when I left school and they had an MbyO department – Management by Objectives. We christened it MbyC – management by Crisis. But Chaos is just as good. And you’re ecactly right about the consequences
I’m the organised type 🙂 Years ago I had a job as a lab technician at my local hospital in a department that ran according the chaos theory. How anything got done I don’t know! It took me two month to organise my area, but once I had it ran like a well oiled wotsit. I just can’t work in chaos, I much prefer to be able to find something as I need it, rather than waste an afternoon looking and not finding it.