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Wednesday 7th January 2015 – NOW THIS IS REAL PROGRESS.

door cupboard behind stairs les guis virlet puy de dome franceYou’ll notice that the cupboard at the back of the stairs has now grown a door. It’s amazing justwhat you can do with four floorboard planks, a handful of screws, two hinges and a tin of clear varnish.

And I do have to say that I am so impressed with this door -almost as much as I am with my galvanised steel dustbin.

It’s not perfect – for a start the hinges are not perfectly vertical so the door opens under its own weight when the bolt is undone, but bearing in mind that I knew nothing about carpentry before I started on this house

It took me all morning to hang the door, mainly beczuse I had to chisel out the lets in the doorframe in order to fit the hinges. I had also to go rooting around in the barn to find some laths to use as backing on the doorframe, and to cut down the panel over the door, so I’m not surprised about the time that it took;

After lunch I cracked on woth filling in the plasterboard. There was still a great deal that I could reach without the ladder, but tomorrow I’ll definitely be needing to use that. I’ll have to remember to unbolt it from Caliburn’s roof;

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Monday 5th January 2015 – I CRACKED ON …

… with the work today, but not necessarily in the direction in which I was intending to go.

I started off by cutting down some floorboarding planks to the correct size to make the end pieces for the plasterboard runs and the doorway into the cupboard at the back of the stairs and at the end of the wall by the stairs. The latter one involved some quite intricate shaping but it was soon done and doesn’t look to bad.

And I do have to say, if I haven’t already … "yes you have" – ed … that this Ryobi Plus One percussion screw driver is a tremendous piece of kit and I’m thoroughly impressed with this – almost as much as with my galvanised steel dustbin.

Next job was to clean off the stairs and mask off everything ready to start the filling of the plasterboard joins and screw holes, but then I had another idea.

If I sand down the filler (and for the moment, I can’t find the sander) the dust will go everywhere, including into the cupboard at the back of the stairs, so the cupboard will need to be masked off. And that gave me an idea. If I have to mask off the cupboard, why don’t I simply make the door for the cupboard instead? Killing two birds with one stone as it were.

door made of floorboards for cupboard at back of stairs first floor les guis virlet puy de dome franceAs it happened, I had a pack of the cheap floorboarding left over, and that was exactly what I needed for the job.

I assembled the four lengths, battened them and reinforced the battens, cut the door to size (four cuts with the circular saw – just as well we had another Alpine day today) and then cut the lets for the hinges. The first coat of varnish went on too before knocking-off time and that was that for today.

This evening, the temperature in here reached almost 30°C as I cranked up the fire to cook some tea. I brought up some fresh wood and that burned fine, and then I put in some of that old damp stuff and it seemed to dry out as the fire became hotter. It was all quite impressive.

Tomorrow I’ll be putting the other two coats of varnish on the door and tidying up ready to start on finishing off the stairway.

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