Garage

We've got a week of leave, coinciding with the bank holiday, and a long list of things to get done. We started work on our garage conversion a few weeks ago, putting up the plasterboard ceiling, and beginning the slow process of laying the new floor: we need to get further with that, as the building work will hopefully start in 10–12 days. As normal, there's also a lot to get done in the garden: it's weeding and mowing season, which always takes a lot of effort.

Yesterday wasn't a very exciting day, by all accounts: I re-stacked some firewood that turned out not to have been stable, and Liz weeded the beds by the septic tank. We then cleared as much as possible of the garage loft (the only loft in which we store anything), including a large number of cardboard boxes that are destined to be a weed-resistant but degradable mulch. A lot of other things from the garage are actually rubbish, so we then went on a tip-trip, before going round to Cath and Jason's for a rather tasty dinner.

Today was more interesting. We started by building a stud wall in the hole through which the biomass accumulator tank was installed. I've always intended to do this, but we've had a stop-gap measure for the last nine months of a layer of mineral wool held in place with chicken wire. Not very professional, but effective.

The stud wall will have solid foam insulation packed into it, and a plasterboard screwed on top; that'll be later in the week.

Stud wall partition (© Ian 2014)

After this was done, we spent the rest of the day in the loft, putting down supplementary rafters and boarding a walkway down the centre of the loft. There was a walkway previously, but the floorboards weren't secured, and the extra rafters (giving us space for plenty of loft insulation) meant it had to be taken up and relaid anyway.