After the weekend of destroying the kitchen, the next step was to start at the top. This meant insulation, checking upstairs plumbing, electric cables, and boarding out the ceiling. As you can imagine, the ceiling was not level and if we attempted to get it so, we'd be here forever. So Dave and Dean added wood to the joists, this gave some extra support as well as getting the ceiling as flat as possible to avoid bending or splitting the plasterboard.
Some of the plumbing from the bathroom needed lifting up so that the ceiling could be made level, so that took more time than anticipated, especially as it meant widening a hole in the wall.
Dave and Dean then pulled the multitude of messy wiring through. They unraveled, capped off and generally made sense of what was up there, so that it would be ready when we add in sockets and lights. Dave set to work with adding the insulation and did a fab job with batons to keep it in place (it has made a difference already). Dean made a massive jigsaw puzzle from plasterboard ready to get the ceiling up. I made tea....until it came to using the auto-feed screwdriver. Ooooh, now thats a nice bit of kit. I did get over excited and pulled the trigger too early once or twice, but it was fun and when I messed it up we just pulled the screw out put in another! It made drilling the plasterboard up SO much easier. By the end of the day I had 2 kitchen lights and an insulated plasterboard ceiling up. Dave and I were also £20 down, we all decided to have a couple of bets, but won nothing. Jenks won £300, Dean also won nothing, and made us all laugh by walking off proclaiming it a mugs game!!
We worked till quite late that day as we all wanted this job finished. It's tough going sometimes, but working with old friends makes it so much more fun!
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| Wires and reinforcement |
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| Adding insulation |
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| The start of the old chimney, to give you an idea of the scale |
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| Two lights and plasterboard up!! |
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