Bedroom 2 - The update...

The plasterer has been!  Here's the timelapse (again!) for the plastering being done.  It cuts out early as I managed to mess up charging the camera, but hopefully you should get the gist!

It has thrown up a few surprises, such as realising that the ceiling is not properly fixed in place.  It appears that whoever plasterboarded the ceiling just nailed the boards to the existing ceiling, rather than to the joists themselves.  The consequence if this is that, if you climb a ladder, you can push the ceiling upwards by about an inch!  The plan is to screw it properly to the joists and then hopefully, at some point in the future, finish it off with coving.


The other surprise was the amount of woodchip wallpaper that I found hiding underneath the paint yesterday.  That was another couple of hours of my life that I'll never get back!  Large swathes of it was (very helpfully covered in Polyfilla, meaning that we weren't quite sure how far we had to strip the paper back.  It was a bit of trial and error!

If anyone in the area would like a brilliant plasterer, ours comes very highly recommended:

Palace Plastering

Bedroom 2 - The quick version!

So.  We had the next BIG push on the house this weekend!  Bedroom 2.  Hopefully, this should allow us to stop living in the lounge quite so much! 

Here is the (very quick) video version of what we did.  We've spent the last two days stripping two lathe and plaster walls (which were, unfortunately, beyond repair) in preparation of the plasterer who is coming on Tuesday morning.  It was either that or wait until June to get the room done.

For those who have never stripped a lathe and plaster wall, believe EVERYTHING that anyone else says about how messy it is.

We'll update you all again once we've had another development.

At long last...

...the office is done!

Not that we need an office, but it's always nice to have somewhere to stick the computer and everything else like that!

It took about a week to do, during which time, we had hoped to complete both the office and bedroom two.  More to come on that later though!

For those who enjoy the geeky side of things, here's a little timelapse video showing the office from (almost) start to finish.  There's a bit of a gap in the decorating phase due to camera issues, but other than that, it's a fairly comprehensive catch up in about 30 seconds!

So on to bedroom two.

We had hoped to Polyfilla and paint the room during the same week.  However, when we've looked at it, the walls are in a truly appalling state.  So we're currently getting quotes to see how much it would cost to get the walls skimmed, so that they can have a nice finish.  And whilst we were at it, we've got quote to do the hallway too.  Which means (potentially) pulling down some old lath and plaster.  So you can see how this has all snowballed this week!

Oh well, decisions can wait for now!  We've got a nice, relaxing weekend planned and I'm going to try and stop thinking about the house for just two days!  We'll let you know how we get on...