Woodwork, stuffing and painting

7 - 17 January 2019

The plaster in the pantry is starting to go off, enough to get on with the rest of the work in there.  We want to insulate all round the room to try to keep it cool all year round.  Part of the room is under the stairs, which is a tricky area to board and stuff.  Also, I'm trying to use up all the offcuts and remnants from the ceiling work, instead of buying new, to clear space and use less resources, so it will be rather a jigsaw.

 Dave cuts a new catflap in the solarium - quite an exciting gothic arch shape, due to the difficulty of working at ankle height when you don't bend too easy.  The cats now have to manage two 'one-way' doors, which should keep random cats out (as they haven't had the necessary practice).

 Some of the pantry wall jigsaw pieces measured, cut, sanded and painted

 Batons and stuffing installed

 Our message to the future, in the event of the house being deconstructed (by hand) at any time

 Boards installed, both in two bits, patched up with filler

 Using old pillows to insulate between the stairs 

 The boarding under the stairs is made up of the offcuts from several ceiling boards, all of which were cut at slight angles to fit the ceiling spaces.  So nothing lines up.  More filler, and surface batons to cover up - which will be handy for hanging hooks from, anyway.

 We finally manage to get the right number of joining pieces for Dave to feed the extractor tube out of the window.  Now we can use the cooker hood!

 Outside, by the music room door.

 Whitewash goes on the pantry walls

 More jigsaw pieces - ceiling trims, edging trims, filler pieces for all the odd corners, and still the skirting boards to do.

Then bright white paint to reflect light in all the odd corners.