… outside this morning. <\/p>\n
Just enough to cut up an old rotten chevron and then cold damp hands (I forgot to dry my gloves) drove me inside.<\/p>\n
First thing that I did was to clear the bedroom of some of the junk that was in there. A pile of cardboard boxes were flattened down, the old woodstove went outside, and they were followed by the old windows. And as an aside, I now have a woodshed with windows \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Next task was to dig Caliburn out of the snow. And there was plenty of that to move as well. I eventually put him at the top of the hill and we went for a little drive in the snow – I need to be sure that I can move around tomorrow as he is off to be serviced.<\/p>\n
After lunch I made some more space in the bedroom and carried on in there. <\/p>\n
Now all of the plasterboarding on the outside walls of the bedroom is finished – something about which I am very pleased. I’m glad that I’ve done that. It looks quite good too. What it needs now is to be all taped down at the edges and then filled.<\/p>\n
And when that’s done, I can carry on with the ceiling.<\/p>\n
That’s two outside walls that have been plasterboarded. The third wall is the back wall and of course there’s a fitted wardrobe built into that. The fourth wall is of course the stud wall and half of that – against the corridor – is done. The half that is against the bathroom I can’t do yet until I’m able to sort out the plumbing. And then I also need to fit the door. <\/p>\n
The window opening needs edging too, and then the floor has to be done.<\/p>\n
But thinking about it, I’ll be putting hardboard on the floor and then putting some of that flooring stuff on top. <\/p>\n
But it’s nice to see some light down at the far end of the tunnel and if this cold spell continues, I might see even more.<\/p>\n
I’m also at the stage where I’m actively thinking about the bathroom too and how that is going to evolve. I reckon that it won’t be long before I have the plasterboard on there as well. But that means replacing the floor first.<\/p>\n
But seeing how the weather has suddenly turned nasty, I’m still impressed with that 10 days of warm weather just after New Year when I managed to do the roof on the lean-to. <\/p>\n
It really was astonishing and I’ll be talking about that for years.<\/p>\n
