You might think that this photo is rather blurred and underexposed, but it was taken with just 2.4 watts of light.

This morning I wired in the 230-volt lights but for some reason (presumably because of my bragging yesterday) I couldn’t get them to work. While I was musing on the subject Terry and Liz turned up so Terry (who is a sparky in his day job) had a quick look and noticed that I’d wired the light switch up wrong.

D’oh!

So once we’d got the wires in the right hole we had some light! All 2.4 watts of mains LEDs and you can’t dispute the brightness of those. This pic was taken from outside the room at 20:00 when it was pitch black outside.

You can also see the pot-bellied stove too. It’s all assembled and in place and it’s tiny. I’ve been cutting wood to a length of 30cms and I’ll need to cut that in half again in order to get it to fit in the aperture.

And would you believe that the chimney that came with it is the wrong size! The aperture is 107mm and the chimney pipe is 117mm. After much messing around I cut down another piece of chimney, sliced it downwards, fitted it inside the aperture (there’s a rim to stop it going into the fire) and lined the slice and the joint with fire cement. The natural springiness sprung it back into a tight fit and the fire cement should seal it, and then I sleeved the chimney over the top. Tomorrow I need to get a joining piece for where I had to cut the pipe and then I can fit the chimney stack completely.

I’ve also grouted the tiling. Krys was right when she said that grouting covers a multitude of sins. But there must have been more than a multitude with the tiling that I did.

Terry, while he was here, had a good look at my door.
“Do you know” he said, “that you can buy doors that come supplied with the doorframe?”
“Hmmmmm. I can see the advantages of that“.

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