Wednesday 26 August 2015

Preservatory Wall

I've been on my own at home today, and have mostly built the new partition wall that covers the wall with the workshop in the preservatory. The old wall is chipboard, held together with some timber slotted profiles, and isn't very robust, or sound-proof, or pretty. In theory, we could have attached plasterboard directly to it, and plastered, but the plaster would probably have cracked almost immediately. Instead, I've built a proper stud wall, which has allowed us to rehang the old front door from the kitchen (back from 2010) to go between workshop and preservatory, add electrical sockets, LAN sockets, and a second lightswitch, and hide pipes to go to a new radiator on the gable end wall. That's all taken all day, and rather a hard day, but it's almost finished. There's lots of plumbing, to connect the two pipes into the system (they're not connected the central heating) in the lofts; and the wiring is similarly isolated. Once the whole room has sockets, then I'll actually wire them into the distribution board, but for now they're dead: it makes working on them easier, as nothing needs to be disconnected.

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