Category: Temporary Accommodations

We have started our move! A steady baggage train from the old place to the new place has been rumbling along, with us carrying boxes full of our personal bits and pieces, bowls, plates, saucepans, fridge/freezer and dishwasher! Shelving units also has been moved.

We are slowly sorting out the kitchen in the new place, putting everything in their new locations, giving them a quick clean! The dishwasher has been plumbed in and it has done a cycle without any leaks!

We have bedroom 1 now occupied with the bed, mattress and bedside table drawers!

We are sorting out a little work area for Stephen and his electronic work, down at the end of the Sun Corridor outside his bedroom. We are using the old shelves from the kitchen and making a new workbench to provide a large spacious area for the equipment and tools.

We have 10 days left until the Mains electricity is moved! And all power is cut off from the old place! We had better be all moved and settled in by then!

Bedroom 2 got its new bed frame assembled.

The bed frame was made up of 4 strips of 300mm wide by 2315mm long of the usual 18mm OSB material, sitting (or rather lying!) on three solid legs, each made up of a 1218mm (4feet) cross beam (63mm by 38mm CLS timber). This is supported by two 400mm high posts (89mm by 38mm CLS timber) and these posts in turn sitting on a horizontal 1100mm long foot (again 89mm by 38mm CLS timber) to spread the load over the floor. These were screwed and bolted together, with the planks screwed onto the legs.

Bedroom 3 has it computer worktable all assembled and varnished today this afternoon.

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The red dye has worked quite well but also we drilled a series of holes along the back to allow cables to come from the little shelf right underneath, right at the back to hold all the sockets and plugs for all the equipment.

We were today making some furniture for the bedrooms. In bedroom 3 will have a new computer work area and bedroom 2 will have a new bed base (replacing a forty year old bed).

The books are slowly filling up the shelves! Bedroom 1 is almost full!

The major bookshelves for Bedroom 2 and 3 are now complete and installed.

Bedroom 2 has larger spacing between shelves as there are a different mix of books .. audio books to be exact and other larger items to store on them!

Bedroom 1 now has it book shelves installed.

11We have added an extra line of shelves so there are now 18 shelves all together. The bottom line will only serve as an odd and ends shelf as it lines up with the base platform level of the bed frame.

Each shelf is 1145mm (3feet and 9inches) long and 150mm (6inches) deep, separated by 205mm(8inches) between levels. The top shelf would be only useful for knick-knack and other smaller items! This gives an approximate capacity to store 500 to 750 paperback books, depending on thickness!

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 a collection of 6inch, 9inch and 15inch both white and brown.

We had decided on a shelf depth of 6inches for all our sehlves. This is deep enough for paperback, hardback books, audio books and some small trays!

We needed 42 lengths of approximately 1.2metres each split into the following sets .

Bedroom 1 : two columns of 8 shelves = 16 shelves
Bedroom 2 : two columns of 6 shelves = 12 shelves
Bedroom 3 : two columns of 7 shelves = 14 shelves

Each bedroom has three vertical uprights (left, middle and right) to fix the shelves to. We have recycled really old brown flake boards (very early version of OSB)!

Hopefully all these shelves will hold our library of old books – really old paperback books- hundreds of them!!

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 with the most dramatic improvements! Bedroom 2 the brown one, was fairly clean already and bedroom 1, the gold bronze, was medium dirty.

All three carpets are now quite lovely!

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 costing just £1 per square metre, with a manufacturer’s claim of 5 years of life.

The lounge was the most fiddly to do as it had two doorways to accommodate and the carpet (a closed loop pile in a beige colour) had a very stiff backing!

The three bedrooms were much easier by far as they are all regular rectangle shapes and the carpets are old ones and easy to move and slice.

Bedroom 1 had the gold bronze plain colour,

Bedroom 2 had a plain brown and

Bedroom 3 had a red with white flowers!

We are going to hire a carpet cleaner tomorrow to give the old ones a good spring clean!