All the silver has now turned to white, and there are lots of cables hanging down from the ceiling for the light fittings. I’m afraid that all the cables are buried, albeit in trunking, as I’m not planning any maintenance on them. I’m not sure what maintenance they might need.
Next task – which I should have finished today – is to turn the white into silver by putting up some battens on the wall and covering the wall with this insulation stuff.
From Brico Depot tomorrow I’ll be buying the under-flooring – 22mm chipboard or OSB. That’s what I’ll be fitting when the wall has been insulated.
But I need the shower base (I’ll try not to drop it tomorrow) as I have to design the shower room and then alter the floor plan of the attic to take into account where the bathroom will be – one or two beams neeed repositioning and we need some pillars. So that’s not going to be straightforward.
Once the floor is in (my task for next week once the insulation is done) I can get the plasterboard for the walls. I’m going for the standard with a backing of 40mm of insulation. All in all, that will be a hell of a lot of insulation.
After that, I need to reposition the stairs and to put up a false wall to keep the stairs enclosed and stop the heat disappearing.
Which reminds me – this insulation is working. For the last two days the highest temperature in the attic has been higher than the highest temperature in my little room, and also, I put my had down the back of the polystyrene as i was fitting the last piece, and there was definitely heat being trapped in there.
I’m not bothered about the quality of the flooring though. I’ll be fitting some laminate over the top which will cover it nicely.
And talking of temperature, the summer has now ended. 2 consecutive days of rain (3 of the last 4 have seen rain) and I have a jacket on in here. Winter is definitely on its way.
In other news, I see that the Septics are up in arms about Iran appointing a suspected terrorist as a Government minister. The hypocrisy is unbelievable and you certainly couldn’t make up a story like this one.
Just WHO do they think that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness of the Northern Irish government are? And the Septics brokered the peace deal that put them in power.
Of course you might be thinking that Adams and McGuinness are white and not brown or black and that makes all the difference as far as Americans are concerned – but that can’t be it. Didn’t the Septics fete Nelson Persondela when he became President of South Africa?
And never mind the “suspected terrorist” – he was actually a convicted terrorist and furthermore, the reason why he did the full 27 years and didn’t get parole was because he refused to renounce violence as a means of furthering his political aims (and one of the best definitions of a terrorist is “someone who resorts to violence to further his political aims”).
It’s just further proof of another famous definition associated with terrorists – namely “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” If the Septics and most of the British can pull their heads out of their nether regions for 5 minutes and take a dispassionate view of what’s happening in the world today, they can see that what the Iraqis are dojng in Iraq against the Americans and what the Afghans are doing in Afghanistan to the NATO farces, it’s no different to what the French and the Yugoslav and the other resistants did to the Nazis who had overrun their countries.
And the response by the American and NATO farces is no different to what the Nazis did to the resistants. Never mind your “illegal foreign combatants” in Iraq and Afghanistan – what about the British and other forces that were parachuted in to occupied Europe in the period 1942-45?
This current western hypocrisy makes me sick
That house is in serious danger of looking civilised!
Looks like being a nice retirement home :p
Thank God, someone else who doesn’t think the sun shines out of Mandela rear end! I was beginning to think I was a lone voice there. He wasn’t just condoning terrorism ether, which to my mind is as bad, he actually took part. He, and his wife, also tacitly condoned the practice of ‘necklacing’. It turns my stomach the way he’s treated like a saint now.
His wife ran the Mandella United football team which was an abduction, torture and execution squad.
The rule of thumb is – if student unions support it then it’s crap. Swansea University renamed their building “Mandella House” until he got into power then it was renamed “Union house”.
Indeed, and although I don’t say she was less to blame for what was done, he was quick to offer her as a scapegoat when it suited his political goals to wash his hands of what was done in his name and with his approval. Betrayal of a kind, to add to the rest of his sins.
Would you expect any less from any politician?
Oh Yes, But then I’m a cynic. However I can always hope for better can’t I?
Besides, if we don’t demand better of them then we get exactly what we deserve don’t we?
It’s hard to demand better when they’re not capable of it.
Then it’s upto the voter to ensure they don’t get the job. All I can do is vote for someone I think is capable. The trouble here is we have block votes. ” My father voted labour so I’m voting…” It’s the worst kind of laziness IMO and it lets the politicians do as they want. Ah ..sorry, pet hobby horse of mine. You get what you ask for in politics.
When you get the choice of Liar A from Party A, Liar B from Party B and Liar C from Party C, how do you choose who to vote for? This is why only 35% of people bother voting. It’s not voter apathy. It’s voter disgust. They withold their votes. I haven’t voted in a British election – local or national for about 10 years. Why? Because none of the candidates are worth the effort.
Then stand at the next as an independant. If you don’t cast your vote they get it anyway, simple because If you do vote then the one you dislike most doesn’t have to find someone to vote for them to match your vote.
Huh… Try to get 1,000 GBP and 500 signatures of supporters to get on the election ticket…
You’ll find yourself up against a brick wall.
Have you tried recently?
Many nuts around here managed it last time, so why not you too? Not that I’m say that you’re… (sounds of hurried digging).
I came from an area where people would say “I’ll vote Labour because I always have and my parents did”. I didn’t have the 1000GBP to gamble either.