Day 197-8. Breakthrough!
I don't recall anything happening on monday.
Today however is all go. Pete chips away at the wall into the kitchen, and by the end of the day we have a nice gaping hole into the new kitchen area. This gives us a nice feel of the spaciousness that we will get; and makes us cold. BtB had forgotten we had no lock on the kitchen door; we phoned up and a chippy is arranged to put the lock on. Meanwhile Pete tPP arrives to look at putting the boiler up in the loft. With the aid of the other Pete, the boiler and the cylinder are got up; a backplate fixed, and a sheet of thermal stuff found and cut. Pete also takes off the radiator in the kitchen on the wall that is no longer there; tomorrow he will move it to somewhere more useful.
There was some kind of problem with the drains, now rodded. I wasn't there for that.
Bob is around when I get back for lunch at 2. Talk this+that and schedule: flat roofer for tomorrow (there is a little flat roof at the top at the back about 3x3 feet); tiles finished friday. Pete will be in tomorrow changing radiator valves and fixing the kitchen rad. Spiral stair nears arrival.
Must put up pix of the big hole. There was far less dust and mess than anticipated. Perhaps someone more house-proud might have noticed more. We just got a v thin layer of dust to sit on top of the existing layer of dust :-)
I discuss with Pete tPP where the pipes etc are to go. All this is made up on the fly - or he likes to give the impression that it is. Its certainly not on the architects drawings, Pete just does his best as things arise. We'll need water and gas in the loft now, of course, and he will find some way to get it there.
Today however is all go. Pete chips away at the wall into the kitchen, and by the end of the day we have a nice gaping hole into the new kitchen area. This gives us a nice feel of the spaciousness that we will get; and makes us cold. BtB had forgotten we had no lock on the kitchen door; we phoned up and a chippy is arranged to put the lock on. Meanwhile Pete tPP arrives to look at putting the boiler up in the loft. With the aid of the other Pete, the boiler and the cylinder are got up; a backplate fixed, and a sheet of thermal stuff found and cut. Pete also takes off the radiator in the kitchen on the wall that is no longer there; tomorrow he will move it to somewhere more useful.
There was some kind of problem with the drains, now rodded. I wasn't there for that.
Bob is around when I get back for lunch at 2. Talk this+that and schedule: flat roofer for tomorrow (there is a little flat roof at the top at the back about 3x3 feet); tiles finished friday. Pete will be in tomorrow changing radiator valves and fixing the kitchen rad. Spiral stair nears arrival.
Must put up pix of the big hole. There was far less dust and mess than anticipated. Perhaps someone more house-proud might have noticed more. We just got a v thin layer of dust to sit on top of the existing layer of dust :-)
I discuss with Pete tPP where the pipes etc are to go. All this is made up on the fly - or he likes to give the impression that it is. Its certainly not on the architects drawings, Pete just does his best as things arise. We'll need water and gas in the loft now, of course, and he will find some way to get it there.
posted by William M. Connolley at 2:10 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home