{"id":1112,"date":"2009-09-29T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2017-07-17T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T08:42:51","slug":"ive-finished-plasterboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 29th September 2009 – I’VE FINISHED PLASTERBOARDING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"insulation<\/a>… the outside walls to my room now. Even the two patches around the far window have been done.<\/p>\n

Well, not quite. There’s a sliver of an offcut needed for one corner but I have that ready, and then there’s the corner that you can see, where I need to think about the cabling.<\/p>\n

One thing I didn’t think about though was the wiring at this end of the room. I forgot to make allowances for where it has to go. But never mind, there’s another option or two about that and I’ll just have to use one of those.<\/p>\n

That cassette player I bought on Saturday – it’s been filed under “B”. The reason is that it’s playing slow. Not by much, but by sufficient to annoy me. What I’ve done for now is to bring into the house the hi-fi from the barn. This consists of a cheap mp3 player and a pair of computer speakers and it’s quite adequate for my needs. I can’t work without music – it makes the time go quicker and helps me to relax.<\/p>\n

The only drawback is that the speakers are 9-volt. I’m trying my best to standardise everything and if I can’t run things on 12 volt I want to run them on 6-volt. I have a set of 6-volt speakers but only one channel is working. I’ll have to see if I can fix it, or else look for another pair of 6-volt speakers at a brocante<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But I think that I’m going to have to come to terms with the fact that audio cassettes is a dying technology, and I shall have to move with the times.
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\"insulation<\/a>This is the pic that you should have seen yesterday. You can see the stud wall that I’ve finished off now, and all of the plasterboard done down in that corner (except for the tiny sliver that is missing).<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll be starting to filling and taping the gaps between all of the boards. I want to do this as quickly as possible as I’m dying to get poncing<\/em>. When that’s done I can set about fitting the tongue-and-grooving.<\/p>\n

In other news, the Open University Students Association Executive Committee has been stung into action by my justified criticism the other day. Members of that august body, in an effort to engage with a much wider audience, have been taking part in some of these reality TV programmes. Andy Pandy, having been well-coached by his friend Teddy, has entered “Come Dancing” as he is one of the few people who can actually do that, but it all went horribly wrong when Pol Pot’s Sibling (who doesn’t feature in these pages half as often as he or she deserves) was eaten by the other contestants during the “Bush Tucker Challenge”.<\/p>\n

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