Before the Plaster Board

Day 25 of owning our new flat and we are now set to put the plasterboard walls up - with the Plasterer coming on Wednesday to start his work.

David and I spent most of Saturday removing the remainder of the rubbish from the second room. This involved bagging it up, maneuvering it into the lift, lugging it across the landing of the first floor to a balcony where we hauled it over the railing and into an ideally placed big metal wheelie bin and then back up again for more. Ben will know this only too well. But we manged to clear the whole room, including lifting the sick coloured carpet and scrapping off the perished rubber flooring which had turned to dust. I was covered in green dust, in my ears, nose and anywhere it could land, my glasses completely fogged, and all I could taste was foul perished rubber dust.

Home for a shower and sleep before getting straight back into it on Sunday morning. Thankfully today we had some more help - this time in the form of Suzi who, despite putting a whole in one side of the plaster board wall we had intended on keeping, was a fantastic little helper and a demon with a screw driver. Sunday was filled with the wonderfully fiddly job of removing the skirting board and dismantling the wardrobes. Find the screw - dig it out of years of paint build up and god knows what else, use all your mite to twist and turn it, until you have the very satisfying pleasure of having the damn thing out. The wardrobe in the main bedroom was particularly stubborn but, job done, just as the sun was setting... then it was off to the pub down the road (The Lighthouse) for a well deserved meal and a refreshing cider. Nice pub with good grub too.

The flat is now ready for the next stage - this is where it will start to look more like a flat and less like a building site.

Today I am trying something new by attaching a link to the new set of photos at the top of this blog bit. Just click on the heading. I have also attached them on the right hand side LINK section under 'Building Works'.

More updates to follow.