Shelves For Bedrooms
We pulled out all the old Melamine white shelving we rescued from our old shop fittings and sorted out the best ones for putting into our new bedrooms. They were…
Carpets All Cleaned!
This morning we hired a heavy duty carpet cleaner from B&Q. It is an upright all-in-one hoover, pressure washer and vibrator machine! The red carpet in bedroom 3 came up…
Carpets all finished
The underlay came today (ungodly hour of 7:10am this morning!) so that was good! We proceeded to cover the floors in all four rooms with this polyurethane 8mm thick foam…
Carpets, Carpets and Carpets
We pulled out all our old and left over pieces, from storage, of carpets rescued from previous homes! One of them had a totally “falling apart to dust” foam backing,…
Day 4 of building up Floors
The final room, bedroom 3, was completed today!
Flooring Day 3
Bedroom 1 was completed today and also bedroom 2! Just bedroom 3 to go! Then it’s carpets time!
Floor Laying Day 2
We completed the Lounge today with the two layers of the hardboard sheets being laid down. The second layer was glued down to minimise slippage. Bedroom 1 is now two…
The Final Painting Task is finally done!
The doorways in the corridor had their final white touch up done to create a nice and crisp edging around each door frame. We were talking today whether a little…
Flooring Surface is Laid!
The rooms in the temporary living quarters started having their final flooring laid down. A layer of 50mm polystyrene foam sheets, with two layers of 3.6mm hardboard on top. The…
Final Day of Painting (Day 6)
Bedroom 3 has all its four walls done in the pale purple colour. It turned out that only one coat was needed, apart from a little touch up on the…