Upstairs bathroom, painted

That's two rooms in two days ticked off the list for painting. The upstairs bathroom still needs flooring, toilet and bath plumbing in, but that's in other people's hands now. So, my work there is done (apart from skirting and architraves!) Another late night in the Dransfield house.

Utility room

Sun room and lounge from kitchen

our new bedroom - now ready for carpet

Upstairs bathroom this week

Upstairs bathroom 2

Upstairs bathroom

Downstairs bathroom this week

Downstairs bathroom last week

My boy, helping out

A week later

It's been a week since my last post, a busy week! More painting for me and now the front bedroom which we're moving into is done. We had a shocker with the laminate flooring in the kitchen and sun room. It had been laid too soon and started to absorb the moisture from the screed. It bubbled and warped in places and had to be taken up this weekend just gone. That was a bit of a setback and has meant that we have delayed the fitting of the carpet in the lounge, for the same reason.

Bathrooms upstairs and down are being fitted. the tiler was here over the weekend and so was Alex, fitting the shower panels. Today Andy has been fitting the sinks and taps upstairs and down. Tomorrow, I will be painting the upstairs bathroom.

Ben has been shipped off to his Gran's for the week to give Anne and I a chance to crack on. The poor boy was being neglected here and we were struggling to get much done. Jenny has been our saviour this week. What would we do without her?

Photos to come..l

Utility room - done!

Another late night painting the utility room. Finished at 12 midnight, emptied the trugs of water due to there being no soffits, fascias or guttering outside. Filled a few vestibules with water from the outside tap, so I could brush teeth and have a cuppa in the morning. Oh, the joys of property renovation. On the positive side, we're getting there.

Weekend shift over

Well, that's another weekend shift done. Just finished now and locked away the hens. natural calico done on the lounge ceiling. The whole thing has now been whited out. Tomorrow it's the utility room. The aim is for 2 coats of full fat white, one am and one pm. That will then be done and ready for plumbing. After that, it's the sunroom. More photos tomorrow.

Flooring through to sun room

Kitchen flooring

Ben, painting the lounge wall

Alex, fitting the flooring

Anne, Bump and Ben

Anne and Ben, busy at work

First coat - ceiling in the lounge

First coat in the sun room

Kitchen floor space before

Weekend work update

There's been more progress this weekend, the laminate flooring has been started and is now complete through the kitchen and utility. There is a stretch which still needs doing going into the sun room. Skirting board is also on throughout the lounge. I've first coated the lounge, sun room and utility with Anne's help edging. We also spent Fri evening cleaning the velux windows in the utility and cleaning the door. For the last few nights we've worked until about 10pm. This morning I'll be second coating the lounge ceiling and this afternoon I'll put a coat of colour on. It needs to be ready for tomorrow when the sparkles come to fit the lights. The utility needs to be done for Tues, so that will be the next priority!

This week the sparkles will second fix, Alex will be sorting the upstairs bathroom out, the plasterers will be coming to do the downstairs and upstairs bathrooms and Andy the plumber will be finishing his stuff off. We're hoping to have at least a temporary kitchen for Christmas.

Week 17 - midweek report

Well, this is my first week off work to concentrate on getting things sorted for Christmas and to help Anne where I can. Things seem to have progressed reasonably well this week after a big disappointment over the weekend with the plasterers not turning up, then when one did, he had to leave because his son was ill. After that, Anne made a few calls to find out what was happening and then we hear from Alex that they won't be returning to the site. Alex managed to call in a couple of lads who've done a brilliant job getting things sorted. If they hadn't have turned up, the installation of the stove would have been postponed.

My job has been concentrating on getting the kitchen whited out. So far I've done 3 coats on the ceiling and 2 on the walls. I am hint that the ceiling will be ok now and that I'll just have to give the walls one more, but I'll see in the morning.

The lads from hotbox have been on site all day and the stove in nearly installed and the flu sprayed.

Alex h been working on bits and bobs, mainly upstairs. The skylight is now in the bathroom and the room has been opened up into what was the storage area.

All in all, it feels like it has been a productive day.

Fitting the stove - cutting a hole in our new ceiling!

plastering out the utility room

Kitchen where door goes through to dining room

Kitchen 2nd coat of white

Kitchen 2nd coat goes on

Stove being fitted in the lounge