{"id":1116,"date":"2009-09-25T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:36:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T21:36:34","slug":"and-just-for-a-change-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Friday 25th September 2009 – AND JUST FOR A CHANGE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fitting<\/a>… today’s pic is taken from almost the same spot as the previous two.<\/p>\n

You can’t see the battens that I affixed to the wall but you can see the insulation that I attached. That is on the rear wall to the left of the wooden framing, and in the apex above the door. There’s even a shelf up there now – that’s where I’ll be fitting the water tank.<\/p>\n

You may be wondering why it is that I haven’t fitted the insulation to the rest of the wall. Two reasons really –<\/p>\n

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  1. it is outside the limits of my room so I don’t need to do it just now. I’d rather concentrate my efforts inside my room<\/li>\n
  2. I ran out of insulation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’ve also fitted all of the rest of the flooring – one piece of which was not without some considerable effort.<\/p>\n

    The orange cable that you see is an American 110-volt extension cable, bought in Farmington, New Mexico, in September 2002<\/a> and brought back to Europe in my hand luggage. I use American 110-volt fittings for my 12-volt circuit on the farm<\/a> as it’s capable of handling a much heavier current than European fittings. And I needed the extension cable because with fitting the flooring I’ve had to take out the temporary circuit that I installed the other week.<\/p>\n

    And of course I clean forgot that I had moved the cassette player across the room. Consequently, in a moment of inattention, I kicked it down through the hole in the stairs all the way down to ground level. I bet that’s done it a world of good. <\/p>\n

    But cassettes are so depass\u00e9<\/em> these days and CDs are in and as I don’t have a 12-volt CD player I will have to see if I can’t liberate one from a brocante<\/em> some time and make a more modern 12-volt hi-fi.<\/p>\n

    Terry and Liz came round again too. They had been to get more sand and came round to see if I had any cement. There were three bags in Caliburn and as they are temporarily in the way I donated them to the cause.<\/p>\n

    Tomorrow, no Brico Depot. Caliburn is still choc-a-bloc of stuff so I’ve plenty to be going on with. I may well have a run around Commentry tomorrow – it’s quite a while since I’ve been shopping there and there are an Aldi, a Lidl, a good DiY place and a couple of cruddy cheapo shops that are sometimes worth a poke around.<\/p>\n

    And in other exciting news I’ve had an e-mail from Simon. He wasn’t able to pick up a cheap woodstove for me from Machine Mart as he was leaving last night and delivery wasn’t until today. But a change of plan means that he isn’t leaving until Monday so he’s picking up a stove for me. Many thanks to Krys and Terry for teaming up to work that out for me, and for Simon for putting it into operation.<\/p>\n

    -4<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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    … today’s pic is taken from almost the same spot as the previous two. You can’t see the battens that I affixed to the wall but you can see the insulation that I attached. That is on the rear wall to the left of the wooden framing, and in the apex above the door. There’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,330,425],"tags":[565,463,429,5381,3646,564,3647,2560,563,5565,206,389,5366,261,3652,5391,372,538],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-liz_terry-messenger","category-simon","tag-110-volt-electric-cable","tag-12-volt-domestic-circuit","tag-attic","tag-caliburn","tag-cassette-player","tag-cement","tag-dying-technology","tag-eric-hall","tag-farmington-new-mexico-2","tag-france","tag-httpwww-erichall-eu","tag-httpwww-lesguis-com","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-machine-mart","tag-simon","tag-space-blanket-insulation","tag-stud-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}