… at work on the enlargement of the battery box today. But I didn’t make anything like the progress that I had intended.
First job was to move the home-made 12-volt immersion heater as it was in the way. And that wasn’t as easy as it sounds either as a load of other stuff needed moving too. The fridge and the chest of drawers upon which it sits too for a start.
Moving the fridge was a problem as there wasn’t any spare room between the legs of the stairway. It wasn’t half a tight fit and I reckon that it had grown during the time that it had been in there.
But once that was out of the way, I found that the chest of drawers had collapsed. No wonder that it had seemed to be sagging a little. I thus had a very pleasant half an hour repairing that and now that will last another 60 years.
With the chest of drawers out of the way, that gave me an opportunity to clean up underneath the stairs and it’s looking quite nice now. With the chest of drawers back in, and in a different position, there’s lots more room now.
I could then move the stack of insulation further down along the wall and this gave me space to put the immersion heater, but not as much as I wanted because we then had an issue about the length of the cables (you might remember this from a few months ago). Accordingly I had to build a level platform on the floor and that wasn’t straightforward either as I was right over where i’ve been digging out.
By the time that I had done that, the place was a total tip and I spent an hour tidying it all up. It’s even better now in there than it ever was.
This afternoon I knocked down the side of the battery box, the one that is next to where the extension is, and chiseled out all of the bits that remained cemented to the floor. I’m still impressed with the quality of the cementing that I did. I must be improving.
I could now get in behind the battery box and with the hook end of a crowbar I could rake out behind it. This was part of the plan as a couple of years ago I had dropped a whole pile of wire connectors down there. I recovered a whole pile of them, a load of screws, several pens, two screwdrivers and all kinds of things.
There’s still a ton of stuff down there and so I shall continue the raking out at the next available opportunity but I ran out of time. Nowhere near finished which is a shame, as that was the aim for today.
Still, never mind. It’s looking much better than it did.
