It didn’t get done today, and for a very good reason too in that this morning the temperature had plummeted and it was snowing.
Not heavily, and it was that wet snow that is more like rain, but whatever it was, it’s not at all the weather for concreting.
And I was late getting up as well – when I should have been getting up I was actually at an airport trying to catch a flight to Agadir. Struggling away with a huge suitcase through the check-in and the person with whom I was travelling – she had gone off into the departure lounge and had taken the tickets with her. I remember thinking that if they asked me for mine as I was going through the gate I wouldn’t half have some problems.
I was rather disappointed that I overslept like this. I had had an early night but it was interrupted by an attack of cramp again but it didn’t keep me awake that long.
So what did I do today then?
I do have a contingency plan for bad weather and this was what I put in to operation today.
When I fitted out the attic at the end of 2009 I didn’t do anything about the head of the stairs. There’s just the upright pillars and the horizontal beam that I fitted and the bits in the stud wall were filled with offcuts of polystyrene.
What I’ve been doing today is to put the battens on the outside wall. That’s all done now and I’ve started to add the insulation and the counter-battens. The insulation that I’m using is that modern expensive space-blanket stuff. That works best in a vacuum and the easiest way to do that is with battens and counter-battens.
When that’s done, I can start adding the plasterboard, fitting the definitive stair treads and risers and then do the ceiling.
I’m definitely in work mode these days.
