One room down and this is the next one on the list, the sitting room. This is next to the Television room and we plan for this to be just an area to sit in and chat away from the television. This room was not in a bad state of repair or decoration, but as is typical the electrics needed a vast amount of sorting out to make it not only practical but also safe.
The channels for the new electrics had been dug some time earlier, but time constraints and other more important projects had to be done before we could consider making a start on this room.
There was already a light and two sockets but they were not the best. Whilst the ceiling light had 3 lights it was at best candle power, and the electrical circuits had a happy knack of just switching off if you plugged too much into them. We also had to route the cable for the sky in through this room, so there were quite a few channels to fill and a lot of wires to fill the channels.
Filling the channels was not too much of a problem, as they already had yeso rapido holding the conduit in place, so any remaining gaps were filled with another mixture of rapido and then contralado and the finishing plaster to give as smooth a finish as was possible.
A good deal of sanding down and it was starting to look the business. Word of advice, even if it sounds like common sense, to most. Always wear a mask as the dust created was something else and got everywhere.
One of the last jobs before painting was to remove the old light switches, plug sockets and light fittings. This bit was hilarious to say the least. For the first time in my life I saw how they attached the ceiling light and I was gob smacked. One thing for sure it would have never fallen down.
I mean that has to be at least an 8" nail, which had to be removed with a crowbar. Now I understand that light fittings must be secure but there is overdoing it a bit and this was a perfect example.
Not content with using nails to secure the light fitting the plug sockets were also secured in the same way, albeit not with such sturdy nails, I can only imagine that they must have run out of the big long ones and had to use smaller ones for this plug socket.
We realised when removing the cabling for this socket that it has been working on the equivalent of bell wire or speaker wire, just really glad we did not use any of the sockets
Two good coats of pain were applied and here we are the done job, well almost we have to build a proper base for the fire and the grate to finish the job, but that is not rocket science.
We are currently using this area as a temporary office until we have the office premises open in Cullar, which should not be too many more weeks now.
As you can see the improvement in the lighting quality and the benefit of some furniture has made a vast difference to this room.
Next up.......Nope not the pan hanger as I have a set back with that....lol Next up Work on the roof starts......whoo hoo!
As you can see the level of the roof has been raised with the intention of putting an additional terrace on the roof. We had elected to have a pitched roof but after much deliberation we have decided to opt for the extra terrace.
