Category Archives: Doing stuff

Floor

It may take some time to blend the new in with the old. 

I’m thinking that I probably should have just replaced the whole floor. 

Coving

Now the spare room’s plastered, it’s starting to look more like a room than a building site. 

Unfortunately, coving, one of my least favourite DIY tasks, took up most of my Sunday afternoon. 

I’m now sitting in the garden, listening to birds, with a well earned beer. 

Music

Someone in our street was playing music this afternoon. Very loudly. 

Which was a goid thing because I was working in the spare room(s) most of the day and the batteries in the radio had died an hour after starting work. 

I had the windows open since a lot of dust was being produced. Whoever was playing music has decent taste. Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Doors, Stevie Wonder, Killers, Nirvana, Green Day and some stuff I didn’t recognise. 

If I knew who was responsible I’d thank them. 

Windows

Almost 13 years ago, when needing to have the dividing wall between the two back betrooms taken down and rebuilt, I glimpsed the potential of the rooms as a single room. 

The two identical windows made it obvious that the dividing wall wasn’t original to the house. 

And, now the wall is no more, the windows can be seen as they were intended. 

The plaster’s still drying in places, and there’s still a lot to do, but the result is better than I’d expected. 

It’s been the messiest job I’ve ever undertaken, complicated by the unusual angles in both rooms, due to old structural problems. 

Walls (part I)

A day later than planned, I’ve plastered a wall. 

It’s the smallest wall, but I don’t like to be too ambitious as it’s a couple of years since I last plastered a wall. 

Not a bad result though.