… when very little seemed to go right. After all of my exertions today until 18:30 this evening, I’ve put one (out of three) sheets of plasterboard on the wall, and that is that.
I started off by some more tidying up in the bedroom so that there was a place to work on the plasterboard, and then I cut the first sheet.
This needed four holes to be cut in for the pattresses, and then a frantic search for the pattresses and sockets. And despite a decent search, I can’t find the telephone socket that I bought the other day.
I then had to lengthen a couple of electric cables and that wasn’t easy either, and when I pulled out a redundant length of wire, I noticed that the insulation was shredded. A further search revealed that I’d put a plasterboard screw from the bathroom through into the conduit for the cables, so I had to remmove that and replace the wires.
But the screw was behind the batten for the suspended ceiling in the bathroom so I had to take the batten down. But the screw head was worn so I had to drill it out. And so the battery went flat in the drill.
And so it went on, and you get the picture.
Eventually, all of the wire was the correct length, in the correct place, properly routed and joined, and so I could offer up the plasterboard to the wall. It needed trimming off and so I had to take it all down again to trim it. And in puttilg it back, I smashed a corner of the plasterboard that I had spent all morning shaping.
But then again, that’s what filler is for and so it’s gone on the wall anyway. You’ve no idea how difficult to manoeuvre a sheet of plasterboard, thread four lots of cable through four lots of holes and then screw it to the wall all on your own.
But it’s done anyway, and if I’m lucky, I can fit the other two pieces tomorrow and – shock horror – maybe even paint the walls on the landing. But I’m not holding my breath.
It was freezing here this morning – 13.3°C. But that’s ot surprising seeing as how it was minus 6°C outside. And freezing where I was trying to work. That didn’t ease my humour any.
So tonight, I’ve banked up the fire and we’ll see what happens.
