Thursday 13 Feb 2014
While Dave does his best to put the second coat on under difficult conditions ...
... I've been making plywood holders for the electrics back boxes. Tomas the electrician had originally brought standard back boxes as used in concrete, but as we explained the issues of our weird house, he came up with a better type of box, and suggested plywood plates to hold them. They go in very firmly, which is excellent. In the concrete apartment where I lived in Nidri, several of the wall sockets would pop out of the wall when you pulled a plug, as the concrete eroded around the fitting. Not a good thing. So we're very hopeful that these back boxes will fit strongly in the ply, as they have a couple of screw fittings that clamp onto the wood. It's going to be a long job, fitting them all, especially as some walls aren't yet built, but Tomas was very laid back about it - just let me know when you're ready and I'll come back, he said.
So when we're rained off plastering, we have lathing and back box fitting to do:
A tricky spot for a double socket fitting, in an olive-wood corner. Eventually the wall will be plastered, covering the plywood, but not the olive wood.
At the bottom of the stairs this wall will have two light switches (upstairs and down), a wall light on the plywood top right and a double socket at ankle level, bottom left. (How scruffy our building site-house looks in this photo!)
While Dave does his best to put the second coat on under difficult conditions ...
... I've been making plywood holders for the electrics back boxes. Tomas the electrician had originally brought standard back boxes as used in concrete, but as we explained the issues of our weird house, he came up with a better type of box, and suggested plywood plates to hold them. They go in very firmly, which is excellent. In the concrete apartment where I lived in Nidri, several of the wall sockets would pop out of the wall when you pulled a plug, as the concrete eroded around the fitting. Not a good thing. So we're very hopeful that these back boxes will fit strongly in the ply, as they have a couple of screw fittings that clamp onto the wood. It's going to be a long job, fitting them all, especially as some walls aren't yet built, but Tomas was very laid back about it - just let me know when you're ready and I'll come back, he said.
So when we're rained off plastering, we have lathing and back box fitting to do:
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