We've been toying with what exactly to do to all the crumbling walls and ceilings. It's mainly lathe and plaster - a right pain in the backside to deal with. It crumbles, it doesn't hold up well to movement and the plaster is as nothing without its lathes. Modern plasterboard gets around this by being …
Month: October 2018
Professor Plumb
As part of the remedial plumbing after boiler-gate, we had a couple of chaps pop by to see if they could make amends. Sadly they had not been briefed at all but at least it's free labour! We were due out that day to London for Beth's indoctrination admission into the Law Society so after …
Sink feeling
What to do in the shower room has been something of an conundrum. Initially we had thought to have a tiny slim one on the wall by the door, but it would just get in the way. After a little bit of sketching to get those less visually endowed up to speed, we agree to …
The waiting game
With the electrician and plumbers rescheduled to finish things off at the end of the month we'd just have to crack on with other things. There was plenty more stud work to wrangle with, a few last joists to seat and some slightly Asbestos-y panels to relieve the dining room of. For starters, Beth got …
Going with the flow
An exciting week as we're taking delivery of the new boiler. Out goes the old system setup - small boiler and immersion hot water tank, fed by a glorified bucket in the attic. In comes a monster of a combi boiler, all 30kW of it, fed by the full pressure of the mains water network. …
Chez Pouget 