Working round the stove

24 July 2018

All ready to do the last section of the living room ceiling (although the last but one still needs doing, as we'd skipped over it to fit in with Rowan's availability.

 The puppy is allowed in the house for the first time, and gets to explore round the scaffolding

 The stove is dressed up 'like a pregnant Mexican' says Dave, to protect it from inadvertent falling objects.

 Rowan arrives, and we start fitting the batons

 We drop the collar revealing some of the heat-proof insulation.  Nasty stuff - possibly fibreglass.  The stove installers, who were excellent, left us a square metre extra so we could put it round the chimney at this point.

 Complete failure to find the camera at the critical time, but the white heat-proof insulation filled almost all the area between the cross batons, except maybe 18cm  at the near end which was far enough from the chimney to have the usual insulation.  Rowan packed it all in, wearing a mask against the dust, having cut a circle out of the boards, and fixed the collar back up.

 Then Dave and Rowan fitted the last corner board, and Rowan's work there was done.  He still had a bit of time, though, so he helped us fit the two big, heavy boards in the utility.

We dropped the light fitting, fixed the boards and refitted it.  There is so much wiring in here, we decided not to indent the boards between the rafters, but span across them.